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If the Wyverns are intelligent then you can use human ways of dealing with birds and big animals. One possibility is:
Throw a net on the dragon (Nets can be produced like humans do it. There are some fire resistant materials) and the dragon falls to the ground.
Hit spears from above when the dragon is grounded. Gravity helps with penetration even if the ...
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Given the OP's statement that the dragons are horse-sized on a planet on which they can fly, a number of points regarding the illustration come to mind:
The placement of the muscles for a creature with a roughly vertebrate skeletal structure appears suitable.
The wings would likely need to articulate from joints in bones rigidly connected to the spine, ...
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Antimatter contained in grains of sand.
..another solution for the dragon's spark popped up on WB today: suppose the dragon is able to find certain minerals, that can embed antimatter in their crystal.. dragons have a good nose for these things. The dragon only has to chew some grains of sand, and out come the sparks. You won't need much.. a nanogram already ...
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Have it work the same way a sparkler does. The key ingredients are a metallic powder of aluminum, iron, titanium or magnesium (or some combo) and an oxidizer to accelerate the reaction. Iron and magnesium are readily available in many areas. The oxidizer components less-so but still available to some degree.
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Spark + Oil spray
For fire breathing, you need a spark and then throw a spray of oil on it with a strong blow.
Biology : Eels create electric currents, Cobras spit venom
The electric eel generates large electric currents by electricity-producing cells packed into a specialized electric organ.
Mozambique spitting cobra (Naja mossambica) spits venom with ...
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If these sparks are persisting in the air beyond the dragon's mouth, and are not simply a high-voltage electric arc, then it is likely that the sparks are indeed caused by the same oil as its flame.
The difference between the sparks and an all-out flame would be that a flame would involve a continuous release of oil, while the sparks would be intermittently ...
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Most stone will melt at around 1,500 degrees Celsius (2,750 Fahrenheit). Magnesium powder burns extremely well and reaches temperatures of about 2,500 degrees Celsius (4,532 Fahrenheit). So your dragon fire should be able to burn through stone given enough time and a large enough breath with enough magnesium content.
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Dragons can resonate beams of liquid fuel by whistling.
Other answers assume the dragon would have to breathe out inflammable gases to let fire do the damage. That is not how it works. In fact, a dragon will produce fire, but that is only a side effect.
What happens is a whistling action. People studying wild dragon's mating rituals have heard the sound. In ...
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While I am not sure about how to make the fireball flammable I do know how to make it a ball. You could give your dragon a mouth structure similar to that of an Archerfish so that it can shoot a blob of the flaming fluid/mixture out of its mouth.
The archerfish doesn't shoot a stream of water it shoots a blob of water with the tail end of the water traveling ...
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Feathers don't need fingers.
https://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/Analogy_of_forelimbs.html
The bat uses the tips of its "fingers" to anchor the far side of the flight membrane. We will call the fingers vertical and the membrane horizontal because that is how it is in this picture. For a bird, all the feathers are vertical elements. Having some ...
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I'm not sure this is possible. Bat wings fly with a very different movement compared to bird wings. A bird's wing moves rather like a human flapping their arms up and down: there's little flexibility of movement, so stiff feathers work to maintain a reasonably consistent flight profile without gaps in the wing surface. A bat, on the other hand, should have ...
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