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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 1323588" data-attributes="member: 571">Of course, since I invented two thecodont lines as ancestors of dragons and lung respectively, I could invent another (unknown to us) pterosaur line.<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=":)" />I expect the same thing that allowed for the increase in size among dragons, the li lung, and the sphinxes etc. could account for the great size of the typical wyvernHere's a quick breakdown of the lung family tree.The lung are divided into two broad groups, the earth dragons (li lung) and the serpent dragons (serpent lung (I don't know the Cantonese for serpent, sorry)) (What is the grouping above family? I can't seem to remember it right now.)The earth dragons are divided into the following families (with species listed in parentheses): Li lung (one species (li lung) in one genus), sphinxes (one species (sphinx) in one genus), pegasi (two species (pegasus and shedu) in two genera), and griffin (three species (griffin, hieracosphinx, and hippogriff) in two genera (1 and 2/3)).The serpent lung are divided into four families: The spirit lung (three species (pan, shen, and t'ien) in one genus), sea lung (two species (chiang and tun mi) in two genera), lung wang (one species (lung wang) in one genus), and dragon turtle (one species (dragon turtle) in one genus).The lung wang, chiang lung, and dragon turtle are descended from a common ancestor. A beast that split off from the ancestor of the spirit lung a long time ago. The tun mi lung is a direct descendent of the chiang lung.True lung and lesser lung are distinguished by the fact that the true lung go through a yu lung (carp dragon) stage whereas the lesser lung do not. This amuses dragon turtles no end.("Fishing for Junior! The exciting new lung wang game show where prospective parents go angling for their young!" Dragon turtle humor.)See above.Good point. I do see certain types of lesser dragons as being more like flying foxes vis a vis simians than monkeys vis a vis apes. In the case of something like a pseudo or faerie dragon, the relationship is more like that between prosimians and simians. In the case of the lung, they produced a degree of radiation dragons and primates weren't able to. Thus such creatures as pegasi and hieracosphinx.BTW, could you come up with a few suffixes to apply to extinct dragons and lung (etc.)? You know, like 'suchus' for fossil crocodilians and 'opteryx' for fossil birds, only for fossil dragons, proto-dragons, lung, and the like. Family, genus, and species names would be nice as well.(Other readers of this post are welcome to join in. However, 'dracos' is already taken and 'draco' (I think) violates a few rules. BTW, the study of dragons is known as dracontology. Because 'dracontology' is the proper form the word takes. (According to William Stoddard, author of GURPS Steampunk.)</blockquote>

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