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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 1964726" data-attributes="member: 571">The Age of DragonsFrom an inauspicious beginning dragons spread to dominate the Jurassic landscape. They grew in size, becoming positively enormous. Possibly the largest dragon fossil ever found was a humerous discovered in Dinosaur National Park in Montana USA. A bone belonging to an animal estimated to have weighed close to 150 tons.Most Jurassic dragons were substantially smaller. The next largest coming in at a mere 40 tons. It was also at this time that dragon scales started to evolve. Beginning as hair-like, later developing into the feather like structures known today. This is taken as a sign that the dragons were evolving endothermia. Though there is a growing consensus that the endothermic condition arose much early, when dragons became active fliers.Unlike many orders around at the time, the dragons survived the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition with little trouble. The spread of flowering plants and the impact on herbivores also changed dragons as well. The old, large species passed away, to be replaced by smaller, presumably more agile species better able to hunt the smaller saurian plant eaters.The accelerating break up of Pangea, and the slow climatic deterioration occuring alongside it, meant continuing changes. As the millennia passed dinorsaur diversity declined. Entire families vanished, and overall dinosaur numbers fell. At the same time the mammals were diversifying. Taking up the niches once occupied by the dinosaurs. The dragons, already the wisest of all the animals, realized they were reaching a crisis point. Unless they took action their primary prey animals would go extinct. Which could mean their extinction as well.The discussions were long. Often bitter. But one central fact soon became clear. The dragons could not stop what was happening. Matter of fact, even trying could make things worse. Through careful work they could save some dinosaur species, but the coming age would be the age of mammals. What would come of this no one could say, but they might be able to guide mammallian evolution into productive channels.Then Dragon Earth's dragons got word from their astronomers.Next up: Making an Impact on the Goddes of Love</blockquote>

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