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DANGER!!! LONG LOAD TIME IF YOU HAVE DAIL-UP.

This is the non-official Dragon Reserch page. Here, I will post any information I have on dragons.

Dragons are known is almost every culture, and the cultures have no contact with each other. Chinese, Azteks, Inuet, Norse (Nidhogg), Romainia, Scotland (Nessie), German (Firedrake), as well as many others. To me, and many others, this has to be more than a huge coincidence.

The body structure of a Dragon (stats):

Wingspan: 20 feet.
Weight (average adult): Male: 200 LBS, Female: 150 LBS.

-The eyes:

Dragon's eyes are very sensitive to light. They can narrow like a feline's. The eyes are virtical so that the eye lids can be closed partially to allow even less light into the eye.

-The Wings:

The part of the dragon that distinguishes itself from all other creatures. The dragon wing is a huge, leathery appendage that is found on several different species of dragon. However, the wings are not the only thing that makes Dragons fly. So does the Hydrogen sacs (Next topic). A dragon's average wingspan is 20 feet.

Hydrogen or Methane sacs:*

When dragons eat, they digest the food in a regular stomach. The digestion then continues in a second stomach that breaks down the food even further. After the dragon's body has used all it can from the second digestion, the body then turns the leftover food and acid into a byproduct of hydrogen. Or, bacteria in the intestines can turn the food directly into hydrogen. There some bacteria that can do that. More on that later. The dragon can hold the hydrogen or methane in hydrogen or methane sacs* in it's body for later use, and can call upon it at any time it needs to, As in the next subjuct:

-Fire Breathing:

The steps to Fire-breathing: (Thanks to Flyingfenix (flyingfenix@yahoo.com or flyingfenix@hotmail.com))
- Dragon inhales air deeply (as deep as it wishes to make the flame last longer or shorter, or if the flame itself is to be long or short) and the fire-gland is contracted, forcing the fuel through the ducts and the ducts mouth.
- Dragon starts to expel the air and the air flow from the lungs mixes with the fuel forming a fine mist. (A dragon stores platinum in it's teeth, and platinum makes a chimical reaction with hydrogen that makes tht hydrogen ignite) The platinum sparks the hydrogen, igniting the mist and starting the fire.
- Dragon continues to exhale the air, spreading the flame as it wishes. From this we deducted the duration of the flame depends mostly of the amount of air inhaled and the strength it is blown out of the mouth (although the number of fire-spits it can spit is directly regulated by its size (a normal small dragon could spit from three to six times, and recovers at variable rates depending on the individual). However, statistics shown that the age of the dragon (and therefore its experience and training) relates with its ability of producing more efficient flames, longer or shorter).
- Finally, when the air ends or the dragon decides to end the flame, first the duct-mouth folds in itself, cutting the flow of fuel, the fire-gland is relaxed and a split second after, the flame ends itself. Again, this is a highly coordinated action taking less than 0.2 seconds.

-Flight:

Dragons use both their wings and the hydrogen/methane* sacs to fly.

*It is uncomfirmed whether dragons have hydrogen of methane, for both are very easily created and both are lighter than air. In my reserch, it was 1/2 and 1/2, neck and neck, whatever you say.

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Some honorable mentions:

Thank you to Mr. B. Ganter, who inspired me to create this webpage in the first place.

Thank you to pagetutor.com for making this job a piece of cake. (Thanks, Joe!)

Thank you to Animal Planet and the team of "Dragons: a fantasy made real" for the inspiration to create this website.

And, last but not least, a special thank you from Jura and I to all the folks at the Dragon Guild at Gaia.