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What animals are called dragons?

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What animals are called dragons?

Living Dragons of Today

  • Basilisk Lizard.
  • Bearded Dragon.
  • Chinese Water Dragon.
  • Eastern Water Dragon.
  • Flying Dragon.
  • Komodo Dragon.

What animal is a real dragon?

King of the lizards Komodo dragons are the largest of lizards, and there are 3,000 kinds of those! They live on only five islands in southeastern Indonesia.

What animal is most like a dragon?

Here are 10 lizard species that look similar to dragons.

  • Chinese Water Dragon.
  • Flying Dragon Lizards.
  • Red-eyed Crocodile Skink.
  • Northern Caiman Lizard.
  • Armadillo Girdled Lizard.
  • Phillipine Sailfin Lizard.
  • Marine Iguana.
  • Komodo Dragon.

Are dragons classified as animals?

Dragons belong the the kingdom Animalia and below that, the phylum Chordata. However, whatever connections they share to other creatures ends right there.

Are dragons alive today?

Real dragons do exist, though. The Komodo dragon is the world’s largest lizard and is a carnivore, or meat eater, that can eat nearly anything.

Where do the dragons live?

No real fire-breathing dragons live in swamps, dark caverns, mountain lairs, or even dense forests. Instead, we have to enjoy them in their natural habitat: our minds. They exist there thanks to hundreds of years of legends, myths, and stories.

Where do real dragons live?

Komodo Island
Komodo Island, Indonesia There is a place in the world where real dragons still exist. In the designated UNESCO Komodo National Park on Komodo Island, one of 17,500 odd islands of Indonesia, you can get up close and personal with the world’s largest lizard, the Komodo Dragon, on a guided tour.

What animals are like a dragon?

17 Pets That Look Like Dragons

  • Chinese Water Dragon. Physignathus cocincinus.
  • Crested Gecko. Correlophus ciliatus.
  • Dragon Moray Eel. Enchelycore pardalis.
  • Draco Lizard. Draco volans.
  • Red-Eyed Crocodile Skink. Tribolonotus gracilis.
  • Green Basilisk. Basiliscus plumifrons.
  • Mexican Alligator Lizard. Abronia graminea.
  • Jackson’s Chameleon.

Are there real dragons that fly?

These lizards of Southeast Asia and India are quite well camouflaged—until they spread their “wings.” Flying dragons glide through the treetops using their colorful patagia, wing-like structures supported by their ribs, Jim McGuire a flying lizard specialist at the University of California at Berkeley, says by email.

Are dragons still alive?

Living Dragons While there are no creatures on Earth that can fly and breathe fire, there are huge lizards that are known as dragons. Perhaps the most famous is the Komodo dragon, which can be ten feet long and weigh over 300 pounds.