Dragons
The most famous and widely varied classification of magical creature, by far.
Basic Information
Anatomy
Wild dragons generally have appearances very similar to extinct oviparous and ovoviviparous animals, including dinosaurs, sauropterygians, pterosaurs, birds, fish, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, insects, etc. They're thought to be the last living remnants allowed survival by their magical abilities; dragons that appear like living species are much less common, presumably due to interbreeding with non-magical specimens and their magical genes being recessive.
Genetics and Reproduction
Their genetic flexibility is even wilder than dogs (which are so flexible that you can breed a small dog with the skin of a bigger dog, as is the case for wrinkly breeds like the pug, shar pei, and bulldog), allowing for rather easy domestication and an unusually high number of hybrid species. However, gestation generally takes about twice as long as for their non-magical counterparts, meaning there is a much longer time in which something can happen to their eggs (for example, it's not uncommon for human pet and livestock breeders to assume a dragon egg was actually a dud and throw it out).
Dietary Needs and Habits
Most dragons are, contrary to popular belief, herbivorous. Which means that most of the hunting that drove many of them to near-extinction was utterly pointless.
Additional Information
Domestication
The dragons modern humans think of as "dragons" are actually domesticated ones bred for traits supernaturals found useful or pleasing. If you see one that looks like the ones in storybooks out in the wild, it's feral.
Lifespan
50-500yrs
Conservation Status
Endangered; hunting is strictly forbidden by most supernatural governments, and some keep them confined to their local otherlands where humans can't just happen upon them.
Geographic Distribution
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