How are dinosaurs related to dragons?

Answer 1

Dinosaurs and lizards both belong to a branch of reptiles called diapsids, which emerged in th early Permian period. In the early Triassic period the diapsids split into two main groups: archosaurs and lepidosaurs. The archosaurs were the ancestors of dinosaurs, pterosaurs (flying reptiles), and crocodilians. The lepidosaurs were the ancestors of lizards, snakes and a third, nearly extinct branch called sphenodonts.

Answer 2

They didn't. Lizards evolved independently of dinosaurs from a different branch of reptiles. Among reptiles lizards are not even closely related to dinosaurs. Dinosaurs were in fact more closely related to crocodiles. The only living descendants of dinosaurs are birds.

Answer 3

They are alike in that both had scales. They are different in that dinosaurs were warmblooded (though this is arguable) whereas reptiles are coldblooded, in that it is known that some, dinosaurs had feathers over their scales, that the predator-prey ratios of dinosaur top predators were around 100 to 1, whereas the predator prey ratios of the only top lizard predator is 10 to one, that dinosaurs evolved and speciated at far faster rates than lizards, in that dinosaurs tended to fill large predator and herbivore ecological niches whereas the only lizard in the world who is a top predator today is the Komodo dragon, in that dinosaurs had forward facing knees, like mammals today, whereas lizards have side facing knees, and consequentially that lizards have more efficient locomotion while dinosaurs had higher top speeds, and in the amount of energy required to sustain them, among many, many other differences.

Answer 4

Both lizards and dinosaurs are diapsid reptiles (they ancestrally have two holes called temporal fenestrae on each side of their skulls).

Answer 5

Well dinosaurs have scales and so do lizards and some lizards eat meat and so do dinosaurs

one difference is that some dinosaurs can fly and all lizards carn't

Answer 6

They aren't in the biological sense as dinosaurs were real creatures while dragons are imaginary. However it is believed that legends of dragons were inspired in part by dinosaurs fossils.

Answer 7

The name is misleading. t means terrible lizard (probably from appearance) but they were a separate group of reptiles