Scientists held a rather interesting view on this topic, in which dragons emerge from the corpses of slain people on the battlefield, much like maggots from cadavers. These acts however were counterproductive to them as humans hunted them with increasing frequency. Robert May believed that the overpopulation of these large predators was avoided with such wasteful behavior. īased on sources from the 17th and 18th centuries, Hogarth also states that male dragons released their sperm into fountains and bodies of water during the mating season. Hogarth, this sexual dimorphism suggests that the crest is used in mating rituals. Medieval bestiaries state that only male Indian mountain dragons have a crest on their heads. Some exceptions to this rule are listed below. There are few resources on the topic of dragon reproduction, because dragons are often depicted in Western myths as monsters sent by the gods or the devil. Most of these cases pertain more often to Asian mythology as opposed to its Western counterparts. Yet there are also stories of dragons which grow to a significantly large size in short time. Some sources also state that the Long dragons of Asian origin lay their eggs in bodies of water.ĭragons are often said to mature very slowly, which match their presumably long lifespans. Such myths are commonly associated with wyverns.

There are however stories that refute this theory, in which young dragons mature in water, as do the larvae of amphibians. Due to their elemental affinity to fire, the eggs are also depicted to require high temperatures which are maintained by the mother dragon's fire. Most times the eggs require a long incubation period in which they are incubated and protected by their mother as is the case with many archosaurs.

As dragons appear to be related to dinosaurian or reptilian animals, ergo to sauropsids, it is believed that they lay eggs.

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