Where can you find a flying lizard?

Flying dragons survive on a diet of almost exclusively ants and termites. The lizards are found in densely wooded areas in the Philippines and Borneo in the east, across Southeast Asia and into Southern India. They are abundant throughout their range and have no special conservation status.
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Can you get flying lizards?

Draco is a genus of agamid lizards that are also known as flying lizards, flying dragons or gliding lizards. These lizards are capable of gliding flight via membranes that may be extended to create wings (patagia), formed by an enlarged set of ribs. They are arboreal insectivores.
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Does Australia have flying lizards?

Researchers from the University of Queensland have discovered Australia's largest flying reptile, a pterosaur, which has been named the Thapunngaka shawi.
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Can you have a Draco as a pet?

Draco Lizard (Draco volans)

Unfortunately, they are not a pet for those who are new to keeping reptiles, because they are shy, require an arboreal enclosure, and might be difficult to feed. They are also not commonly available, so locating one can take some investigation.
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Can I buy a dragon?

You can also buy a dragon from your local pet store, though it may be more difficult to ensure the dragon is healthy. The best option is to buy a dragon from a breeder, but if you are not able to get in contact with a breeder, the pet store may be your only option.
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Are there flying dragons?

Draco volans, also commonly known as the common flying dragon, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to Southeast Asia. Like other members of genus Draco, this species has the ability to glide using winglike lateral extensions of skin called patagia.
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How big can flying lizards get?

Interesting Flying lizards (draco) Facts: Flying lizards are not very large animals. They can reach up to 8.1 inches of length including the tail.
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Do flying reptiles still exist?

Although there seems to be no hard evidence that pterosaurs did not die out millions of years ago - no pterosaurs have ever been captured and no bodies have ever been found - sightings have persisted. Stories of flying reptiles have been recorded for many hundreds of years.
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What lizard looks like a dragon?

Draco Lizards (Draco volans) are also known as the flying dragon. This lizard species is small in size, only growing up to 8.4 inches long, but is able to take flight like a dragon. There are around 40 species of Draco lizards. Blue, red, brown, and orange are the colors they appear in.
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Is there a dragon in Australia?

This discovery marks the third species of anhanguerian pterosaur to be found in Australia. All of them have been recovered in western Queensland. The fossil is on display at the Kronosaurus Korner museum in Richmond.
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Where does the tiny dragon live?

The species lives in both northern Peru and southern Ecuador between 2,375 feet and 5,715 feet (724 and 1742 m) above sea level.
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Are Draco lizards poisonous?

Humans do not eat the flying lizard. In fact, this species is believed to be poisonous by many Philippine people, however, this is false (Taylor, 1966). Thus, the only benefit is the esthetic value of seeing such a colorful species of lizard take 'flight.
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Can I buy a Komodo Dragon?

Is It Legal to Own a Komodo Dragon? Since Komodo Dragons are an endangered species, it's currently illegal to own one.
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What is the closest animal to a dragon?

Described as 'the closest thing to a real life dragon,' scientists have discovered a new 'fearsome beast' from the time of the dinosaurs! The creature's fossil was found in Australia and is thought to be a new species of pterosaur, a group of winged reptiles that were the largest flying animals that have ever existed.
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Are pterodactyls still alive 2022?

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Other than birds, however, there is no scientific evidence that any dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, or Triceratops, are still alive. These, and all other non-avian dinosaurs became extinct at least 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period.
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Has a dragon been discovered?

Fossilized remains from a giant flying reptile, dubbed by scientists The Dragon of Death, have been discovered in Argentina. The newly discovered species was the size of a bus and hunted prey from Earth's skies around 86 million years ago.
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Did flying dinosaurs survive?

These flying dinosaurs looked much like modern birds externally, except for their teeth and wing claws, and they lived diverse lifestyles like today's birds. “They were very successful in their own right—and then they all went extinct,” Ksepka, who was not involved in the study, says.
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Why is Draco known as Flying Lizard?

Draco, genus of the lizard family Agamidae. Members of the genus are commonly referred to as flying lizards, because scaly membranes between the forelegs and hindlegs allow them to glide from tree to tree. There are more than 40 species of Draco.
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Are Draco Volans real?

AT HOME IN THE dense tropical rainforests of South-east Asia and southern India, the fantastic flying dragon lizard, Draco volans, cuts a fine figure as it glides through the trees. Those colourful 'wings' are skin extensions called patagia, stretched over highly specialised, elongated ribs.
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Do dragons still exist?

Dragons don't exist (as far as we know), but some of their individual characteristics can be found throughout the animal kingdom. It would have taken quite a few turns for natural selection to have produced dragons, but if you're willing to stretch a bit, most classic dragon characteristics do exist in other species.
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Are fire dragons real?

After all, a flying, fire-breathing reptile could never exist in real life, right? It's true no fire-breathing dragons have ever been discovered, yet flying lizard-like creatures exist in the fossil record. Some may be found in the wild today.
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Are there real dragons?

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Komodo dragons are living, breathing dragons, even if they don't breathe fire. But that doesn't mean they aren't really cool—and fierce—reptiles. Komodo dragons are the largest of lizards, and there are 3,000 kinds of those! They live on only five islands in southeastern Indonesia.
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How much does dragon cost?

Dragon Speech Recognition has 6 pricing edition(s), from $14.99 to $500. Look at different pricing editions below and read more information about the product here to see which one is right for you.
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