Photos of Dragons

This is a thread to post photographs of dragons!
No paintings or other fictional pictures of dragons, please, only unmanipulated photographs of actual real-life dragons!

Spoiler: leggy dragons are not everyone's speed

 

Now this is the content I signed up for!

 

Out of curiosity, what are these dragons called?
Also, leafy seadragon

 

well the last one in wiwaxia's post is a snakefly, which i know because i just went on a google adventure to find out because holy crap what a cool bug dragon

fanart may need to happen

 

I'm pretty sure the top one is a Blue Dragon nudibranch (nudibranch are super cool, if you type that into google they look so cool)

 

third one from the top i'm almost certain is a komodo dragon, and the first under the spoiler i think is a centipede

 

Glaucus atlanticus, yeah.
Then a Galapagos land Iguana, a Komodo dragon, a centipede and a couple of polychaetes and then snakefly.

 

the Blue dragon nudibranch looks kinda funny out of water, hee

 

this might count more as a sea serpent than a dragon, but it looks like a dragon to me.



the giant oarfish, a deep sea fish dragon that is estimated to grow over 50 feet long although the largest one that's ever been recorded before was only 26 feet. here's an apparently super rare video of one swimming captured by chance in an ROV.

i feel the need to warn anyone who wants to go look at more pictures of these that most of the photographs i've found are of dead ones and people posing with their corpses and since that can be no fun for a lot of people i thought i'd give a heads up.

 

Revivifying this thread because it deserves this bear and this bear deserves it.

 

I have a whole tag full of these which i can't get to right now because my ipod explodes when i try to make it do tumblr. Note to self: when computer is accessable, spam the dragon thread!

 

The dragon I posted also has adorable fluffy footses:

 

Holy shit, look at this. It's a fucking dragon snail:



If I saw this featured as a star wars alien critter, I would scoff it off as being too unrealistic. :U

 

While I'm at it...

Spoiler: picspam

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is that a fucking kyogre

 

holy shit, TRILOBITE BEETLES

Spoiler: bugs with mild leg

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dainty dragon claws!! wing-looking carapace flare things!!! SPINY TAILS !!!!!! AAAAH THEY ARE MAGNIFICENT I LOVE THEM

fakedit: apparently the flat and spiny ones are larvae and the more rounded-looking ones (like in the first pic) are adult females. Adult males just pupate into regular-looking beetles with wings, around 1/10th the size of an adult female. I couldn't find a pic of a male but according to this article they probably look something like this beetle from the same family:

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you could make such a good dragon species out of this, y'all.

 

i'm pretty sure that's some kind of gigginox or khezu variant.