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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 1271338" data-attributes="member: 571">(Last piece got long, didn't it.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Anyway, here we now have lung interrelationships.)Before I begin I should point out that some in the field insist the lung and sphinx families should be combined into one. The Li lung, the sole Earth lung species, being the reason.The Li lung is a problematic beast. Included among the lung thanks to tradition and genetic research, it does more closely resemble the sphinx in appearance. In this author's opinion the sphinx, genus and species, should be incorporated into the lung, with the hieracosphinx, lammasu, ki rin, and pegasus given a family of their own.At the same time, the Earth lung is somewhat distantly related to the Serpent lung. Which is made up of the Pan, Shen, and T'ien lung. As their name notes, these are the most serpent like of the lung, and the ones people usually think of when speaking of the lung.From them the Storm lung evolved. The Chiang lung appearing first followed by the Tun Mi lung. It is from the Tun Mi that the Lung Wang evolved, and from the Lung Wang that the dragon turtle arose.The big problem in determining relationships between the lung lies in the Yu lung life stage. The Li lung goes through a Yu lung stage, but not the spinxes or their close relatives. The Lung Wang also goes through a Yu lung like stage, but the Lung Wang Yu lung stage has major differences from the standard Yu lung. For one thing, the transformation to the adult form among the lung is sudden, occurring effectively instantaneously. The transformation among the Lung wang is gradual, taking place over the course of months.The presence of a shell much like that of the turtle (thus the name, "dragon turtle".) is another.Lung-Dragon RelationshipDragons and lung are about as closely related as crocodiles and dinosaurs. The common usage of 'dragon' to refer to both groups has caused a lot of confusion, and not a few fist fights at scientific conferences. Dragons and lung (and the lung's close relative, the sphinx) arose from different thecodont groups, on opposite sides of the Pangaean supercontinent. Dragon (and lung) evolution will be covered in another thread.</blockquote>

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