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⚠️WARNING⚠️
⚠️This is heavily speculate, so don’t expect it to be 100% accurate. I am sorry, if the animals look disproportionate, because I was too lazy to make them 100% proportionate, because they’re just black silhouettes⚠️

When Hyrotrioskjan said, that dragons are in the varanidae family, but dragons can fly and are warmblooded and I doubt, that dragons would be varanids. I think, that they’re more of archosaurs. They share similar anatomy with dinosaurs, birds and pterosaurs, but they’re scaly, like crocodiles and alligators. I have two ways on how dragons could be classified in those cladograms.

1.
As you can see the orange 1, they are separate from dinosaurs and birds, like pterosaurs, crocodiles and alligators are. There are two types of dragons. Wyvernid dragons would have evolved to move on their back legs and would be very bird-like, meanwhile “standard” dragons would move on both their back legs and wings, like pterosaurs. In this first way, I didn’t make them dinosaurs, because at first I thought, that dragons couldn’t evolve from theropod dinosaurs, because theropod dinosaurs were feathered and dragons lack feathers. I’ve figured out a second way and I’ll explaint it.

2.
On the second orange number, the dragons are classified as theropods. They would’ve probably evolve like another branch from archaeopteryx and they would’ve lost majority of feathers and they would’ve been replaced by scales and some parts of dragon’s body would have feathers just for display.

Which way seems more feasible to you? Or is there perhaps a new one? Tell me your opinion in the comments!

Description
⚠️WARNING⚠️
⚠️This is heavily speculate, so don’t expect it to be 100% accurate. I am sorry, if the animals look disproportionate, because I was too lazy to make them 100% proportionate, because they’re just black silhouettes⚠️

When Hyrotrioskjan said, that dragons are in the varanidae family, but dragons can fly and are warmblooded and I doubt, that dragons would be varanids. I think, that they’re more of archosaurs. They share similar anatomy with dinosaurs, birds and pterosaurs, but they’re scaly, like crocodiles and alligators. I have two ways on how dragons could be classified in those cladograms.

1.
As you can see the orange 1, they are separate from dinosaurs and birds, like pterosaurs, crocodiles and alligators are. There are two types of dragons. Wyvernid dragons would have evolved to move on their back legs and would be very bird-like, meanwhile “standard” dragons would move on both their back legs and wings, like pterosaurs. In this first way, I didn’t make them dinosaurs, because at first I thought, that dragons couldn’t evolve from theropod dinosaurs, because theropod dinosaurs were feathered and dragons lack feathers. I’ve figured out a second way and I’ll explaint it.

2.
On the second orange number, the dragons are classified as theropods. They would’ve probably evolve like another branch from archaeopteryx and they would’ve lost majority of feathers and they would’ve been replaced by scales and some parts of dragon’s body would have feathers just for display.

Which way seems more feasible to you? Or is there perhaps a new one? Tell me your opinion in the comments!