Dragons
The dragon, long considered a mythical creature, which indeed once existed but is now extinct. The last one having died in captivity in 1911, was part of a traveling zoo where it was falsely labeled as a rare winged garter snake. Although scientists have so longly disputed the existence of because their attributes, anatomy and abilities appeared scientifically improbable. The key word being here: "improbable" and not impossible. Few fossils of have ever been found because like a bird, their bones were hollow, although some have been found ! In China they found a dragon�s head, which they said to be a "horned tyrannosaurus skull" and in 1897, on the beach in Miami, the carcass of a ...
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, where they have been seen, etc. Enjoy !
Types of :
There were many types of who once walked the earth, here are the most common:
The Guivre: The legless and wingless Guivre would have seemed a mere serpent, even though an immensely powerful one, except for it�s massive head, horned and
bearded. Guivres liked to live in forests and wells, anywhere near water.
The Lindworm: Falling between the birdlike Wyvern and snakelike Guivre, the Lindworm had a serpentine body with one pair of legs. It was flightless which means that it had no wings. The Italian traveler Marco Polo reported seeing some while crossing the steppes of central Asia.
The Heraldic dragon: The most widespread and formidable of its kind, the Heraldic dragon had massive fangs, four clawed legs and a ridge of sharp spines that extended from its spiked nose to it�s barbed and stinging tail.
The Amphitere: A legless, winged serpent, the Amphitere could be found along the banks of the Nile and in Arabia, where ...
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nitrogen. The gas is compressed by very strong muscles, exactly like the base system of a refrigerating system. The dragon doesn�t need to think for it because it is spontaneous and painless. When the dragon needs to freeze an opponent, the highly compressed nitrogen that almost reaches the liquid state, is released in the lungs, and when the gas comes into the air it uncompresses at an unimaginable speed. The result is that the gas absorbs all the heat in the environment. This causes the temperature in the breath to drop to an average of � 75 degrees C. Anyone caught in the path of the breath without heavy heat protection was at least seriously injured or killed.
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