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<blockquote data-quote="Mecheon" data-source="post: 8853258" data-attributes="member: 6801776">Going further into my phylogeny rambling...Lung/Ryu probably split off first from the Linnorm ancestry, with Naga being a close relation due to historical relation between the two. But the appearance of the rear legs suggest that there's some mechanism in Draconiformes to allow the generation of more limbs. Once you get that first limb generation the other baseline draconiforms in Wyverns and Drakes are easy alterations of bodyform to either adapt to flight, or to go for a bulkier apex predator body. Drake-line leads to dragons proper with the appearance of the rear wings. Hydra and Zmey are close relatives as I doubt the multi-head thing evolved multiple times. There's probably a line who've secondarily lost their arms and became full snake, leading to your wyrms Behir are the dragon equivilent of weasels or ferrets, a snake-like body and lifestyle but retaining legs. Giant, angry, lighting-spitting ones.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mecheon, post: 8853258, member: 6801776"] Going further into my phylogeny rambling... Lung/Ryu probably split off first from the Linnorm ancestry, with Naga being a close relation due to historical relation between the two. But the appearance of the rear legs suggest that there's some mechanism in Draconiformes to allow the generation of more limbs. Once you get that first limb generation the other baseline draconiforms in Wyverns and Drakes are easy alterations of bodyform to either adapt to flight, or to go for a bulkier apex predator body. Drake-line leads to dragons proper with the appearance of the rear wings. Hydra and Zmey are close relatives as I doubt the multi-head thing evolved multiple times. There's probably a line who've secondarily lost their arms and became full snake, leading to your wyrms Behir are the dragon equivilent of weasels or ferrets, a snake-like body and lifestyle but retaining legs. Giant, angry, lighting-spitting ones. [/QUOTE]

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