Quote:Just as an aside on this topic... some years ago Peg and I visited the American Museum of Natural History in NYC with Steve Jackson (yes, of SJG) and a mutual friend, and I remember spending a great deal of time studying a display that showed the difference in bone structure between dinosaurs, modern lizards and mammals. It occurred to me at the time that draconian physiology must be closer to mammalian than saurian. I remember wanting to do something with this for Narth -- a page on the biology of dragons, perhaps -- but I never got around to it and I forgot the details. Something about the structure of the hips, along with vertical leg jointing rather than horizontal, I think...
I just had a suddden thought RE dragon biology - their closest purely mundane terrestrial relatives, despite their saurian appearance, is most likely the duck-billed platypus.
-- Bob
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It's a "magical" land. I think "magical" is ancient Greek for "pain in the butt". -- Bun-Bun, Sluggy Freelance, 11/9/03