Anatomy and Description of a Dragon

I didn't have the space in my were-card to adequately describe to you all the wonderful features of a real dragon as I see it. Besides, placing this description in a separate file allows people not interested in the were-card to access this database.

If you don't like the information set in here, don’t complain – send your own database to me and with your permission I will post it as an alternate theory, because the definition of a dragon is very loose with most people.

The features of my proposed dragon body were told to me by the Holy Spirit in February of 2004. Before I could pray for a dragon body, I needed to determine what I was praying for exactly. The Holy Spirit was very generous and described for me a powerful dragon body I was comfortable with. Once I knew what my body looked like, I told the Holy Spirit that I accepted His description and to go ahead with the shape-shift. I leave you this compilation so that if you need to change into a dragon, you have the specifications already worked out.

Species: Archaeodraco speciosa

Order: Crocodilia

Diet: Herbivore

Head: A dragon has a wedge-shaped head similar to an alligator's but the snout is reduced greatly in size to about the proportion of a lizard's, and the cranium is much larger and elongated. In male dragons, the snout is broad and tapers acutely to the nostrils, whereas the snout of a female dragon is longer and tapers very little. The lower jawbone is not composed of a single mandible bone as in mammals, but several bones, and the jaw is attached to ball and socket joints at the rear of the skull. Unlike a snake, the lower jaw cannot be stretched.

Eyes: Unlike a typical crocodilian's eyes, those of a dragon are not vertically mobile but are covered dorsally by a bony crest which has horns along the ridge. The lower eyelid is larger than the upper eyelid, so when the dragon's eye is closed, the eyelids meet not across the midpoint of the eye, but further above that. The eyes themselves have irises colored yellow, green, gold, red, grey, or brown. The lens of a dragon's eye is a catlike slit that can open wider in darkened conditions to allow more light to hit the retina.

Mouth: A dragon's mouth is covered by stretchable scaly lips, but the tusks and other long teeth at the front of the mouth protrude past these. The teeth are all sharp scimitar-shaped but they are used not to tear meat but to grasp and hold the vegetation which the dragon feeds on. The tongue is pink, fleshy, long, and forked, but it is unsheathed, like a Gila Monster's. The tips of the tongue fit into the Jacobsen's organs in the roof of the dragon's mouth (like crocodiles, dragons have a palate separating the nasal passage from the oral cavity) to identify scents. The nostrils at the tip of the snout on each side have a triangular flare of skin behind them to catch scents. Between the lips and the nostrils are one or more pairs of long wormlike barbels for detecting objects by touch in the dark, much like a cat's whiskers. More barbels can be found on the dragon's sharp chin. This species of dragon has no beak.

Ears: A dragon's eardrums are external and covered by a protective scale. They are found just above the jaw joint at the back of the skull. A pie-slice-shaped bony flap (the operculum) protects the anterior side of the eardrum, and spine-like horns arm the rear of the eardrum. More spine-like horns guard the rim of the operculum.

Horns: Dragons have short horns on the ridges of their snouts, on the rear of their lower jaw, and along the eye ridges and the ears as described above. Two large wavy horns protrude backwards from the skull. Both sexes have these horns, and their size is not indicative of gender. Flatter, circular horns, each with a ridge across their midpoint, form rows of armor along a dragon's back, sides, and tail. Lastly, six large backward-curving horns on either side of the tail tip act as a weapon for the dragon.

Body shape: A dragon's neck is long and graceful, like a Brontosaur's. Dragons have deep chests and slender bellies, reminiscent of a greyhound's. The shoulders are placed obliquely to the chest and are held in place by a shoulder girdle, much like a lizard's. The muscular arms are actually quite mobile despite their nonhuman alignment. The robust thighs are attached to an ornithischian-style pelvis. The tail is long and can be whipped, like an iguana's.

Extremities: The forelegs end in human-like hands with four slender fingers and a thumb, albeit with slightly elongated palms for a digitigrade, quadrupedal posture. The feet are long and end in three splayed support toes and an inner fourth toe shorter than the rest. All the digits end in sharp claws, but only the fingertips have enlarged pads.

Scales: A dragon's body is covered in round, pebbly scales above and on the sides, and rows of square scales beneath – not snake scutes as shown in many pictures (snake scutes are only useful to snakes because they aid in legless locomotion). The scales can be red, blue, green, black, white, yellow, orange, or brown dorsally and either white or the same hue in a lighter shade ventrally.

Wings: This species has no wings. It relies on levitation for support in the air.

Muscles: A dragon's muscles are extremely tough, like an elephant's.

Voice: All dragons have very deep voices which cannot be mistaken for human utterances.

Lungs: A dragon has large lungs with air sacs attached to it to push air back across the alveoli. It is a system found in birds and dinosaurs and is very efficient. Thus a dragon does not have a diaphragm dividing the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity.

Heart: A dragon's heart is complete and four-chambered.

Digestive System: A dragon stores food in a crop just above the stomach. In the crop, the dragon's food is broken down with stones that the dragon swallows. The stomach is four-chambered. The liver is large, dark red, and has few lobes. Most of a dragon's body behind the stomach is taken up by the intestines.

Excretory System: A dragon has two elongated kidneys that empty into a pair of urinary bladders, which remove the water from the dragon's urine to change it into a white semisolid. A flush of water squirts the wastes out of the cloaca, which is a chamber open to the base of the tail and visible as a longitudinal slit behind the pelvis. The large intestine also empties into the anterior end of the cloaca.

Reproductive System: A dragon's gonads are located dorsally of the kidneys. A dragon has eight testicles or ovaries, depending on whether it is male or female. Dragons reproduce by hard-shelled eggs which necessitate internal fertilization. The male has a penis attached to the floor of his cloaca. The sex organ is cylindrical and has a rift down the middle from base to tip for transporting semen. The penis has an elongate, conical glans sprinkled with little spines. When erect, the penis is pushed out of the cloaca and projects forwards as it enlarges. Female dragons have a clitoris and two vaginal openings, one of either side of the clitoris.

Natural Weapons: A dragons claws are sharp enough to rend steel apart. Their teeth are strong enough to crush concrete.

Breath Weapons: All dragons breathe fire and one additional breath weapon. As a blue dragon, I breathe lightning as well as fire, but other members of this race can breathe napalm, neurotoxic gas, fungal spores, hydrochloric acid, petrification, liquid nitrogen, alpha particles, sonic boom, or hydrogen peroxide. All these weapons are miraculous in nature and originate from the esophageal opening. A dragon's breath weapon is very devastating; the fire alone can melt a tank.

Energy Projection: Dragons can fire volleys of various destructive energies from their hands.

Flight: Dragons fly by means of levitation. They need no wings.

Invulnerability: A dragon is invulnerable to all weaponry. It can only be killed by immersion in an environment where it cannot breathe.

Regeneration: Dragons regenerate very quickly - in fact, almost instantaneously.

Invisibility: Dragons can become invisible to humans through suggestion – not a difficult feat since most humans don't want to believe in the existence of the paranormal.

I hope this candid information has helped you.

Love you. God Bless.

Molatar Seth Pyrargent.
Dragon, Evangelist, Ranger.

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