Post by Admin on May 22, 2013 20:44:18 GMT -7
A dragon is considered in a type if it shares a majority of traits with animals from Earth within that group. Example: a mammal type can have skin (no scales), fur, or hair.
Reptile:
Mammal:
Serpent:
Aquatic:
Amphibious:
Insect: (I am grouping arachnids in this as well (scorpions, spiders, tarantulas, honestly the list is endless if you actually decide to check them out so I'm stopping there at the well known 3)
endless list goes on?
Skeleton:
Reptile:
- Shares bone structures
- Scales and/or scutes (scale shields/plates)
- Teeth
- Tails
- Usually shorter necks
- Don't like cold
- Lay soft shelled eggs
- Horns
:::Examples:::
- Geckos
- Tortoise
- Iguana
- Komodo dragon
- Horned Lizard
- Aligators and Crocodiles
Mammal:
- Blubber
- Can have hair, fur, or bare skin
- Live young
- Antlers / horns
- Two legs and walks upright or semi upright or four legs
- Human like arms (monkey or ape)
- Flexible neck
- Don't mind or even like the cold
:::Examples:::
- Wolf
- Bear
- Tiger / Lion
- Horse
- Apes / Monkeys
- Rodents
Serpent:
- Share many same characteristics as reptiles
- Has no feet. None.
- Can coil up and bend all over
- Has a forked tongue
- Can see in infrared
:::Examples:::
- Anaconda
- Python
- Sidewinder
- Black mamba
- Boa constrictor
- Eels (I know they are not a snake but their external physio is similar)
Aquatic:
- This includes anything that would live in the sea
- gills / blowhole
- fins and tail fins
- scales
- smooth, rubber-like skin
- If it lives and sleeps in the water
:::Examples:::
- Angel fish
- Dolphin
- Whale
- Whale shark
- Shark
- Lion Fish
- Seahorse
- Manta ray
Amphibious:
- Smooth, slippery, moist skin
- No claws, hooves, or claws
- Can breathe water or air and can have no lungs
- Eggs are laid in water or highly moist areas
:::Examples:::
- Frogs / toads
- Salamanders
- Newts
- Axolotl / mudpuppy
Insect: (I am grouping arachnids in this as well (scorpions, spiders, tarantulas, honestly the list is endless if you actually decide to check them out so I'm stopping there at the well known 3)
- Have fangs that point downward and are close together but separate from each other and capable of movement from being outside the mouth
- Six or eight spindly, thin legs (Or multiple legs in the case of caterpillars/centipedes/millipedes)
- Wings
- exoskeleton
- clearly segmented parts via the joints (head, abdomen, legs, feet, tails)
- Buggy (Bugs have so many looks and differences I can't name all of them, I have named off the main ones)
:::Examples:::
- Camel spider (Look this critter up. scariest thing I've seen)
- Emperor scorpion
- Mantis
- Ant / wasps
- Bees
- Beetles
- Caterpillar
- Grasshopper
endless list goes on?
Skeleton:
- Exoskeleton in the shape of a internal skeleton
- Small organs
- Extremely tough exoskeleton
- If stomach bone sack(commonly called a bone sack (A large formation of bone that covers over a large space, the space is filled by it's stomach fluid and rods of intestinal wall are placed into the fluid to absorb nutrients.) is present it drops prey into it's stomach. If no bone sack is present it eats via drinking the fluids of it's prey through it's fangs.
- If it flies it flies via propulsion of air, or water jets out through holes in it's exoskeleton (those that use water are not capable of flying any higher then their own height off the ground.
- It's stomach acid has a high pH level and the bone sack / stomach sacks are highly resilient to it.
- If a bone sack is present a bone covering prevents externals from getting in until it opens from force. It is then closed by tendons attached to the bone separated far enough to let almost any food in