Re: What is Your Fav Mythical Animal
Posted: September 17th, 2023, 11:20:39 am
Wyverns!
They have the mythical, dangerous energy of a dragon but unlike dragons, they feel more plausible.
I remember reading somewhere that the weirdest thing about dragons is that they are six limbed whereas almost every other animal (not counting insects, arachnids and fish obviously), have four limbs.
Birds have four limbs, two being their feet and two being their wings.
Mammals typically have four limbs with the arguable exception of elephants, tapirs and certain monkeys who use their tails like another limb. Even in those cases, they only go up to five limbs, not six.
Six and more tends to be associated with insects, shellfish and arachnids. Whereas less than four is more associated with fish but then again, I'm not an expert.
So it's a little weird that dragons have six limbs, which I know sounds silly since there are so many other mythicalogical creatures that are just as implausible like hippogryphs, pegasi, gryphons, etc.
But I dunno Wyverns just seem more possible, like some weird descendent of the archaeopteryx that forgot to keep its feathers and become a bird down the line.
They have the mythical, dangerous energy of a dragon but unlike dragons, they feel more plausible.
I remember reading somewhere that the weirdest thing about dragons is that they are six limbed whereas almost every other animal (not counting insects, arachnids and fish obviously), have four limbs.
Birds have four limbs, two being their feet and two being their wings.
Mammals typically have four limbs with the arguable exception of elephants, tapirs and certain monkeys who use their tails like another limb. Even in those cases, they only go up to five limbs, not six.
Six and more tends to be associated with insects, shellfish and arachnids. Whereas less than four is more associated with fish but then again, I'm not an expert.
So it's a little weird that dragons have six limbs, which I know sounds silly since there are so many other mythicalogical creatures that are just as implausible like hippogryphs, pegasi, gryphons, etc.
But I dunno Wyverns just seem more possible, like some weird descendent of the archaeopteryx that forgot to keep its feathers and become a bird down the line.