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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9425433" data-attributes="member: 6796661">For courtship?Not sure if the artist was thinking about this, but in real life, reptiles with with horns (both snakes and lizards) <a href="https://www.snexplores.org/article/reptiles-horns-lizards-snakes-predators#:~:text=Some%20lizards%20and%20snakes%20%E2%80%94%20like,than%20in%20more%20active%20hunters." target="_blank">are almost always sit and wait predators</a>. Also in real life some species of reptiles will have variety in terms of horns in the same brood. So dragon horns may just be an individual variation, rather than common to all members of the species (up to DM world building). Having a horn come down from the jaw like that is more likely a tusk (the only animals I can think of with &quot;horns&quot; from the lower parts of their heads are those with exoskeletons, like insects). Or it is neither and just a decorative flesh that becomes rigid when it is threatened. If a tusk, maybe it is used to dig/plow through forest ground cover, which might be important for younger green dragons hunting burrowing animals in the forest.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 9425433, member: 6796661"] For courtship? Not sure if the artist was thinking about this, but in real life, reptiles with with horns (both snakes and lizards) [URL='https://www.snexplores.org/article/reptiles-horns-lizards-snakes-predators#:~:text=Some%20lizards%20and%20snakes%20%E2%80%94%20like,than%20in%20more%20active%20hunters.']are almost always sit and wait predators[/URL]. Also in real life some species of reptiles will have variety in terms of horns in the same brood. So dragon horns may just be an individual variation, rather than common to all members of the species (up to DM world building). Having a horn come down from the jaw like that is more likely a tusk (the only animals I can think of with "horns" from the lower parts of their heads are those with exoskeletons, like insects). Or it is neither and just a decorative flesh that becomes rigid when it is threatened. If a tusk, maybe it is used to dig/plow through forest ground cover, which might be important for younger green dragons hunting burrowing animals in the forest. [/QUOTE]

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