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A dragon-like horned serpent of the Lakota peoples' mythology. Unhcegila: A horned serpent also of Lakota mythology. Gaasyendietha: A lake dragon or serpent of the Great Lakes, found in Seneca mythology. Palulukon: Palulukon is a class of water serpent to the Hopi of North America. [35] European-American dragons Thevetat
Robert Blust in The Origin of Dragons (2000) argues that, like many other creations of traditional cultures, dragons are largely explicable as products of a convergence of rational pre-scientific speculation about the world of real events. In this case, the event is the natural mechanism governing rainfall and drought, with particular attention ...
This is a list of lists of dragons. List of dragons in mythology and folklore. ... List of fictional species This page was last edited on 2 May 2022, at 08:14 ...
Volcanic activity, earthquakes, loss of habitat, fire, [29] [13] tourism, loss of prey due to poaching, and illegal poaching of the dragons themselves have all contributed to the vulnerable status of the Komodo dragon. A major future threat to the species is climate change via both aridification and sea level rise, which can affect the low ...
The team also redescribed several other species of dragon lizard from China and India. ‘Ghost’-like sea creature — with ‘massive’ head and peeling skin — is a new species.
Modern fan illustration by David Demaret of the dragon Smaug from J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 high fantasy novel The Hobbit. This is a list of dragons in popular culture.Dragons in some form are nearly universal across cultures and as such have become a staple of modern popular culture, especially in the fantasy genre.
The study’s lead co-author, Veerappan Deepak, described the new species as a “diminutive dragon” in a post on X, formerly known asTwitter. A male (top) and female (bottom) Agasthyagama edge ...
A “dragon”-like creature climbed near the top of a rocky peak in Laos. ... The new species “likely evaded earlier discovery due to its very specific habitat preferences of living high on ...