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Terrasaurus; Parallel earth were diapsod dragons rule
Topic Started: Oct 7 2009, 08:20 PM (3,373 Views)
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Trying to get some outside insight on this. It's in desperate need of revision and I'm trying to get back into it.
Any ideas, words of wisdom, etc.?
Concepts are welcome.

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Oct 24 2009, 11:04 AM
Draco Maritimus?
Yeah, i'm a bit sad about dragons.

How about a Forty-metre apocalypse drake? Obviously, it can't fly.

And to cont. my previous dragon flight physics, a higher pressure, higher oxygen conc, and lower gravity would be beneficial.
Don't use Draco as a genus
BTW is the "Draco" maritimus have a polar bear body concept
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Isn't draco the genus?
Wyverns are Ophiliodraconis, and drakes pseudodraconis, so what are dragons then?

Draco maritimus is pretty much the same but white and doesn't breathe the same stuff.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Draco was already taken by a certain kind of lizard; maybe "Eudraco" can be used as a dragon genus
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For Mythica Mundi, i used Serpingens Draco for the latin name.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Oct 25 2009, 08:18 AM
Isn't draco the genus?
Wyverns are Ophiliodraconis, and drakes pseudodraconis, so what are dragons then?

Draco maritimus is pretty much the same but white and doesn't breathe the same stuff.
Eudraconians
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Draco Maritimus?
Yeah, i'm a bit sad about dragons.

How about a Forty-metre apocalypse drake? Obviously, it can't fly.

And to cont. my previous dragon flight physics, a higher pressure, higher oxygen conc, and lower gravity would be beneficial.
Ah, but then it would sies to be an earth like our own, which is the primary point behind all of this.
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Again this is his project and no one elses, unless he asks for any suggestions ;)



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Sorry, i'm a little over-enthusiastic.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Oct 23 2009, 06:30 PM
Yay for dragons, as for any dragon ideas, what about some bone-crunching scavengers, though instead of looking badass, instead they're mongoose shaped with small wings, and awkward blunt-teeth, though they do have sharp quills on they're back to deter predators ;)
I likes. :D

I thought about it last night in bed and decided to dub them "Hyenasaurs".
They'd likely be restricted to the old world continents, but then again, there had been new world hyenas as well... And with their weaselly bodies, they might easily find another niche to exploit (like egg-thieving or chasing arboreal mammals, birds, or wurms.)
... Could New World hyenasaurs be a basal off-branch? (rhetorical question)

I like my idea of herbivorous wurms. Long bodies hold extra guts needed to breakdown fruits and (most importantly) leaves. They probably aren't as active as predatory wurms, but I see them partaking in ritual, up-side-down head-butting competitions with one another over mates or territories.

Also, no, there will be no genera dubbed 'Draco' simply because (a) it's cliche, and (b) it's been done with real world draco lizards, which could very well exist on the dragon world as well.
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Awesome, and as for the hyenasaura they could too be called Leucrotas, and maybe there could even be nut-cracking and shelled mollusc eating forms !



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Leucrotas...
This is becoming a little bit of a snatch-and-grab exercise.
Have you seen a Leucrota's teeth?

Anyway, the hyenasaurs sound like lindworms.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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