Their body color may range from green, red, and black to unusually yellow, blue or white dragons." Some dragons live in palaces under the ocean, while others can only be found in caves and inside mountains, such as Smaug in JRR Tolkein's " The Hobbit."Īs folklorist Carol Rose's book " Giants, Monsters, & Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth" (Norton, 2001), dragons "have composite features from many other beasts, such as the head of an elephant in India, that of a lion or bird of prey in the Middle East, or numerous heads of reptiles such as serpents. Some are only a few feet long others span miles.
Some dragons can speak or breathe fire others can't. Though most people can easily picture a dragon, people's ideas and descriptions of dragons vary dramatically, according to Grunge.
(Image credit: Getty/ Forrest Anderson) Different types of dragons Dancers dress as traditional Chinese dragons at an annual temple festival.
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