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flying dragon |
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flying dragonLizard Draco volans of the family Agamidae. It lives in southeast Asia, and can glide on flaps of skin spread and supported by its ribs. This small (7.5 cm/3 in head and body) arboreal lizard can glide between trees for 6 m/20 ft or more. |
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They pointed out the fish and dead birds lying about among the rocks as proving the nature of the food of these creatures, and I heard them congratulating each other on having cleared up the point why the bones of this flying dragon are found in such great numbers in certain well-defined areas, as in the Cambridge Green-sand, since it was now seen that, like penguins, they lived in gregarious fashion. A carved bird or beast at a corner seemed like some vast walking or flying dragon wasting the pastures and villages below. Did I have it carried away by seven flying dragons, or was it merely a trifling matter of turning it into a milk-white hind? |
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