The Dragon Journals | Speculative Biology
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2024
- What might the biology of a tiny order of dragons look like? A detailed exploration the Dragons of Wales worldbuilding series, Andy Frazer’s excellent speculative project.
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Dragons cast a large shadow over the mythologies of the world. Few legendary monsters can compare to these gigantic beasts. But what if dragons cast… a slightly smaller shadow?
What if some dragons weren’t huge monsters, but strange and secretive creatures evolved to live hidden lives in the shadows and margins of the world? The amazing artist and writer Andy Frazer imagines a world where dragons are all around us, from the highest mountains to the deepest forest. Concentrated primarily in the author’s homeland of Wales, these smaller dragons - or ‘Microdragons’ as I call them - make up for their reduced size with their incredible diversity and ingenious survival strategies. The author has released many field guides on these tiny wonders that explore their evolution, anatomy, behavior, and habitats in great detail.
So, for this entry into the archive, I’ll assume the role of a naturalist and observe some of these creatures out in the field…
0:00 World of Dragons
1:18 Draco Nothophthalmus
2:26 Emerald Saeth
3:28 Draco Cepediana
4:29 Draco Ilexis
5:20 Draco Acidium
6:29 Draco Muscipula
7:18 Draco Favilla
8:05 Draco Coccineus
9:00 Draco Caudatae
9:46 Crimson Cimwch
10:41 North Nofiwr
11:32 Seren y Storm
12:23 Draco Aerilingii
13:15 Draco Borealis
14:07 Draco Babirusis
14:58 Draco Lampyridae
15:45 Draco Johanseni
16:38 Draco Ignisprehendri
17:32 More Dragons…
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I’m just imagining rat-sized dragons that hoard spare change.
"I smell pennies" -smol dragon
New dark souls boss
Rat Dragon, Keeper of the coins
Would you like ones that can be milked for their venom? D&D's got you covered
Their entire hoard is just one coin they’ll never let go off
*Heavy Footsteps *WE SMELL PENNIES*
Can't help but wonder if any of these kinds of micro dragons could possibly be domesticated. I can easily see a species that's not afraid of something that gains its trust.
I mean probably, there would definitely be some kind of pet trade with them like modern reptiles
Could feed it pennies
If there are people existing in that world then they are definitely pets.
It’s like… havin a pet lizard… and a pet bird… IN ONE!!!
The little kid in me is jumping with excitement at the thought of having a pet dragon.
common misconception, bird bones are actually exceptionally dense! their bones are more calcified (and therefore denser) to increase the strength of the bones for flight. Their skeletons are about the same weight as equivalent mammals though because they replace their trabecular bone with air cells. think of it like the difference between an aluminium pipe and a wooden stick. the pipe is stronger than the stick, but both have the same weight.
The trade off is that when we break bones we just fracture, but when birds break bones they shatter. on top of that a lack of bone marrow means even minor cuts carry a serious risk of exsanguination.
Yep yep! And they don't look hollow, like most people think. The way I describe it is like web of bone on the inside, instead of being fully hollow. Bird bones are really damn hard to break compared to mammal bones of a similar size
@@batfurs3001 are you pregnant yet?
@@youtubestudiosucks978 where the hell did this come from?
@@Beanbandit-gc7yc sometimes you gotta do a random suprise question for the fun of it.
He never expected that question
@@youtubestudiosucks978
Are you neural Atypical?
Honestly, concentrating a lot of the dragons in Wales makes sense for more reasons than just being the author's home country. Like, the flag literally has a dragon on it.
Wales is the land of dragons and sheep.
SCP man
Wales and it’s folklore has always had a close relationship with stories of dragons
Are the O5 allowed you to jump between reality?
Site 56. That is all.
I love the idea that, from a speculative evolution standpoint, "Draconimorphs" would be decended from rampherincid pterasaurs and "Griffonimorphs" would be decended from azdarcid pterasaurs. (Forgive my bad spelling)
"Forgive my bad spelling" well you obviously have internet and when you are aware off your bad spelling, why don´t you try to look up the correct terms? You could learn something, not only the spelling.
@@gshaindrich Bruh
@@gshaindrich *aware of
maybe you could try to look up the correct spelling. Maybe you could learn something lol
@@phroggekreecher1111 preach Queen 👑
@@ostrich3335 Queen but ty
It'd be interesting to see an analysis of the Dragons in the Memoirs of Lady Trent, by Marie Brennan. The variety of dragons in that setting, and their relationships with human life are fascinating.
Yeeeeees!! I loved that book growing up
I remember those books
Very much agreed.
THIIIIIS
Yes, i was thinking of this series while watching this video, it reminded me of the scene where lady trent started her fascitation of dragons, i think her first encounter of a dragon-like creature was the sparkling, a tiny dragon-like insect! Its a great combination of adventure, fantasy and science!
In some folklore, smaller dragons like the drak or the house dragon from Germany are classified as faeries rather then full blown dragons
And the one dragon with the glowing tail( i forgot the name) resembles the drak with its own glowing tail which villagers used to explain why shooting star's occurred
I live in Wales, and first bought Andy Frazers work at a renaissance cafe. My walks through the woods have never been the same since discovering his admittedly much more interesting take on my home country.
Wow! Such creative designs for these dragons, and I love how they are all based on real world hunting/defense strategies. I personally really love the Venus flytrap dragon. Amazing!
Dracopedia (specifically, the Great Dragons) by William O'Connor was always one of my favourite books. It's so cool to see other artists' interpretations of dragons!!
I own that one! It’s one of a few tabletop books I switch out
I suggest you look into No Man's Sky sometime! it's a great game that has a lot of the charm of Spore's space stage. it also has some surprisingly deep lore. it needs some time poured into it though.
I found and befriended a creature that is literally just a comically fast floating metallic orb. He's even considered a valid mount by the game.
@@roboticjanitor3332 Just got some hard All Tomorrows’s vibes from that.
@@roboticjanitor3332 with that im convince that im going to get that hame
I actually managed to get to the black hole in the centre of the galaxy in Spore today, and I just kinda finished the game. Maybe I'm gonna switch to No Man's some day
Do you mean the first spawn gek vikeen and korvax or just the random prosedual creatures living ships and leviathans
Not just dragons, not just tiny adorable dragons, but tiny adorable Welsh dragons! Well...mostly adorable.
Now you're speaking my language. Thanks for showcasing this one for addition to the Archive, I'd probably never have encountered this project otherwise.
you'd have to speak welsh though, the dragons wont understand english lol
@@N0sta1ga Dw i'n gallu siarad tipyn bach o Gymraeg.
@@WhitzWolf92 mae dy gymraeg yn dda, dda iawn i ti!
@@N0sta1ga Diolch yn fawr!
Being welsh I was always told in school the story of the red and white dragons battling it out in a hill at Dinas Emrys. And how after a long and fierce fight the red dragon won. I've always wondered if what if dragons really existed and people in medieval wales actually saw them.
And I've been watching you since day one and I love your vids man keep it up!!👍
The concept of dragons existing has always been a cool one that is why I love souls games the dragons are so cool looking
@@Randomperson-qp7cv Beautiful? The gaping dragon was one of the ugliest things I have ever fought in any of the souls games. And that’s saying a lot considering there are plenty of hideous things in those games.
@@floridaman6572 I was thinking of the hellkite dragon the also the gaping dragon was more of a fanny then a dragon
@@Randomperson-qp7cv I dunno man. I love dark souls but both dragons are pretty damn ugly in my opinion.
@@floridaman6572 I understand also looking at my comment I don’t mean beautiful I mean cool my bad
I don't know if it fits your channel, but I would love to see a video about the creatures of Roshar from Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive!
Alternatively, I want to suggest Netflix' Alien Worlds. It's exactly what speculative biology is about :D And its style heavily reminds me of The Future is Wild
I never actually thought of that for some reason even though Brandon Sanderson is my favorite author but that would be really cool
@@floofyfluff2736 Brando Sando's fictive creatures are especially curious becaue they are so well fleshed out! And unique in design.
Love your profile pic btw. Magicarp jump is one of the dumbest yet best mobile games imo xD
I feel like Alien Worlds could've been better, they only focus on one aspect of the alien world, mostly predation, and most of the show doesn't focus on the aliens. I think it would've been way better if the entire episode was just exploring the planet and its ecosystems, like nature documentaries. I wanted to see more than just a few minutes of the aliens, followed by 30 minutes of people talking.
@@jacobcox4565 yeah, I totally see your point here, and midway to episode 1 I felt the same way. Though after I came to terms with it, it became exactly what I personally liked about the series, that it's more of a documentary about our planet. An unusual one, I highly appreciate that :)
As a Welsh-man im very happy to hear about brilliant projects and people in my country and from a channel that I love non the less .thanks so much keep it up love all your work
I’d say my favorites are the Lampryidae, the Nothophthalmus, and the Caudatae. They’re very cool looking and I really like them!
Its a very cool collection. Absolutely brilliant artist
I love your channel, and especially this series on fictional and speculative biology!
As a native British person who is passionate about ecology, Frazer's work speaks to me: there is ancient mythology of dragons in Wales, with tales of a great battle between a red dragon (representing Wales) and a white dragon (England) leading to the popularisation of the story of St. George slaying the dragon. Presenting dragons as anomalous to insects, birds and other small animals is a powerful alternative vision to tales of old, where dragons were evil monsters to be killed. This brings attention to the way many of the native creatures of Britain such as wolves were demonised and hunted to extinction, leaving the UK with one of the least ecologically diverse landscapes in Europe.
Well in the case of dragons, color matters. Metallic ones are okay, while other (chromatic) colors are evil.
This channel is always a treat
I'd love to see this as a series! These takes on mythical creatures are awesome and I'd like to see maybe a couple more things from this series on your channel!
I love this! We need more dragon videos
@@coledaulton8740 You know you could edit the comment to remove the typo.
Ok thanks
These things are so adorable. I want one as a pet also I wanna live in this universe
I specifically want the Lobster Micro Dragon, something about the little furry face and the “whiskers” make it so cute.
I love how Wales is being recognised for its mythology!
Im Welsh btw. We have loads of dragon stories.
@@Bears.t I’m from Cardiff mate, I know about the stories.
Just that most of the world doesn’t know of our country’s existence half of the time. A lot of western and eastern People often forget it’s part of Britain aswell…
That's a nice project with a good idea !! It remember me the video of Dracology with realistic dragons
I wonder if one pterosaur species survived the mass extinction, would they have dominated the skies instead of birds, or would they be minor players? Wonder as well how their presence might have changed evolutionary history more broadly.
They were already getting outcompeted prior to the Mesozoic extinction. Their niches overlapped a lot with those of birds and there were small pterosaurs who could have survived, so I'm sure they would have survived the extinction if it wasn't for the birds outcompeting them in the thing they were very specialised on.
I think the biggest pterosaurs suffered the least competition with birds but those got extinct for the same reason the other big dinosaurs did, lack of resources.
I think it’s also possible that biodiversity in pterosaurs was lower at the end of the Cretaceous due to the niches of small pterosaurs being increasingly taken by juvenile life stages of the larger pterosaurs, similar to what was happening with theropods like T. rex. Birds were certainly thriving but I think if any pterosaur species had survived the mass extinction they still would have had niches to cling to through neoteny at least
@@SupahTrunks7 Even from my limited knowledge I know that that would be conceivable, but given how they basically directly competed for the same niches, and that with flying creatures there's no geographical isolation possible, and on top of that flying is a niche that is particularly especialized, makes me think that in not very long they would have gone extinct regardless.
I don't know what kind of environment and niche would allow them to thrive against birds.
I suppose I'm being overly pessimistic.
@@didack1419 that's a fair point. My guess is that their best way to avoid as direct competition with birds would be by going nocturnal the same way bats avoid competition with the birds filling their same diurnal niches. otherwise their main advantage is the efficiency of their four-limb powered lift-off for getting larger bodies airborne which could give them an easier time reclaiming their soaring niches if they can re-evolve their larger sizes before birds evolve the necessary adaptations to fit the niche.
@@SupahTrunks7 _it would be by going noctural_
It sounds very plausible.
Yeah really, the biomechanics of pterosaurs are very interesting. It was weird to me when I discovered that they actually launched themselves, I thought that it was so interesting to see a completely different way to do more or less same thing.
What if there was a dragon who's fire breath was made of neon atoms?
A dragon breathing neon fire.
I love how all of these could also very reasonably live in the Monster Hunter universe.
Who agrees that it would be great if CA did a part 2 on this collection?
I think I can see where some of the writer/Artist's inspiration has come from- pterosaurs, particularly Anurognathus. As there are some good fossils of these creatures, it would be easy to fitrst study the skeletons and then tweak them, and, finally let the imagination run wild as what all the millions of years gone by have done in shaping them!!
Seeing a new entry to the archive always brightens my day! What astonishing little creatures!
Have you ever considered covering Biblaridion's Alien Biospheres series? I suppose it goes a bit in-depth into the speculative biology of the world of its own accord, though... don't know if it would have much for you to add.
I love your speculative biology vids :)
I absolutely love the way you make your videos, making it a story of its own, as if you are a biologist in the world cataloging all of the animals you see. It's such a unique and cool format!
I love this, dragons are such an amazing fantasy beastie, and I love works that try to explain how they could exist plausibly.
This guy should really play through ARK with dinosaur population turned down to minimal and document his survival journey and what creatures he encounters in this same, satisfyingly wholesome and concise style
Wonderful.
Practically flawless.
These videos are always just so beautiful
I love the design of all of these creature. Such.. Astonishing concept art
Has to be one of my favourite UA-cam channels
man its great to see you upload another video like this, i liked it a lot!
Even tiny dragons are awesome.🐉🙂
This was so awesome!!! I’ve been waiting for this one for a while. Thank you so much for delivering. Keep doing good.
Love any and all content related to dragons! This video is no different, keep up the good work :)
This is probably the single video that I wish was truly real.
I love both dragons and speculative biology and this has both of them!
These are so adorable! And mighty, don't forget mighty. 😅
Love your videos, keep up the good work 👍
This fills such an extreme niche that I needed filled. I love it so much and thank you for boosting the author.
Love these videos 🖖
This is the most adorable stuff to just casually listen to. Thanks mysterious, yet, generous recommendation algorithm!
Great video, love the format.
Amazing artwork. And of course, you are a great super-naturalist!
Too, I’ve been following this guy for a couple months. Nice to see you covering him
These type of things is why i do creature design in my own time, now im thinking to add dragons to my inspiration.
All these other speculative artists is one of the reason why i do what i do and i thank this channel for that and people that loves creature's and speculation.
This is one of my preferred spec evos you've done.
We will have these in the future. Will be accessible to all by 2100.
whenever this man posts it's the highlight of my week
Absolutely stunning , a very exciting insight in to micro dragons ....
I love this channel 💙
Followed this artist on Instagram for a while now. Stoked to see you covering the art :)
Day 3 of asking for more Serina videos
I love dragons, this was so cool!
I’ve been following him on Twitter for years now, wild that you’re doing a video on this amazing stuff
Please do more!
I want to say thanks for having such an amazing channel.
I love how you explore these worlds. This one has me inspired to do some creature building myself, although I need to be careful not to copy this idea too much.
... Perhaps I can take my simple pixies and expand them in a similar way.
Oh boy my favorite subject
i think that you should do a "biology of ARK Survival Evolved" because it has a few made-up creatures that would be interesting to see the biology of.
Before I watched you’re videos, I had started making what I hope to be my own fantasy novel series. You’re videos are what got me really into speculative evolution/biology and I started focusing on the biology and evolution of the creatures I’ve made. However some of them may not be too accurate, because I have a 6-7 year hyper fixation on dragons. Anywho- I would love to make extra books explaining those aliens. :)
figured I’d share.
I’ve been asking for this forever
For a second, I thought the whole thing was real till you introduced a second 'dragon'. Then I read the description. Nice work!
Very cool book, I'll have to check it out. Reminds me a lot of the Dracopedia series by William O'Connor (another potential source material for a video if you're interested). He, too, has put dragons in a more real-world light and covers many varieties, large and small.
16:02 This isn't a dragon, is a snowscrourge from Serina modified by the Qu.
The crossover nobody asked for, but we all needed.
Another great video
First saw this while in Wales so I can easily see the inspiration for this
A really cool art project! Also great video!👍
Many don't really seem to fit into the temperate climate of wales, like a flightless fruit eater blending in with a special tree would have trouble feeding outside the short time those trees bear fruit.
5:50 frugivorus, a fine word to add to my collection
Finally a video about the Dragons of Wales that's longer and covers more dragons!
Sad that I can't buy the books and I barely see any names for some of the unique drakes online, thanks to you, I got to know more of the nameless dragons I see when I search of Dragons of Wales by Andy.
Also hyping on the new Dragons book releasing this June.
I can just imagine that one guy just walking around yoinking all these dragons
Cool!!! I love everything about this. 😺
Wake up babe, new curious archive video
I want one of these as a pet, they all look so interesting and fun looking/to be friends with!
"probably done, just for fun"
And that's how I know it's even better than a lot of speculative biology. See, what has always bugged me is that if you look at Dinosaur drawings, they lack a variety of behaviors, like mating rituals and play. They are animals after all and surely must have done other things than hunting and eating. To see that particular detail really shows that the author has put in a lot of thought.
The dragons designs it's awsome
Great! Immediately ordered the book
Awesome video would love one on the ecology of Skull Island from the James Cameron King Kong film
Awesome, as usual ;)
You should definitely do an episode of his recently released book, project: tepui
This is so cool!
we need part 2
THIS IS WHAT IVE BEEN NEEDING TO SOOTHE MY DRAGON LOVING & ZOOLOGY NERD NEEDS THANK YOUUUUUUU!!! I now have a new favorite animal species :)
Ironically during the Late Jurassic, there was a family of small, theropod dinosaurs that resembled real life"micro dragons": the scansoriopterygids (meaning "climbing wings").
I love this!
Good video man good video :D
Humans:sees this
Humans:"It was as big as a house and it breath can fire it was so large I almost did not survive"
What they were describing:
This is the first time I have seen this and I love it I'm going to order some books as soon as I get paid 🙂
Some of them only look like a mixture of a gecko and a bat. Love it
Review All Tomorrows. Not an in-depth guide to the whole series, just a quick 5-minute video of things that stand out to you.
Love love love--this is so the video I need right now. Also, really want a micro dragon bff.
I love this video! I adore pterosaurs and I've always loved dragons, having grown up with httyd.
One small nitpick though, your use of subspecies in this video is incorrect. Subspecies are more like races of a species instead of fully different species. A subspecies also has a 3 part name. For example the common barn owl: Tyto alba
The stereotypical white bellied barn owl in Europe is of the subspecies Tyto alba alba. There's another common subspecies in Europe that's much darker and has a brown belly, Tyto alba guttata. These subspecies live in different areas, and in the overlapping areas where both exist, like where I live, they interbreed readily and produce fertile offspring.
I'm just a big nerd who's so deep into learning about ornithology that I just couldn't unhear it. Love your stuff!
Imagine a game or series based on this it be a fun experience