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Traditional dragon anatomy issue

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#1

No vertebrates has more than four limbs, right? Due to nature’s design of the rib cage, with muscles to move the front limbs occupying a large part of it, and the trapezius and latissimus dorsi being connected to the head and the pelvis, having six limbs on a vertebrate is just not very credible IMO. Still we’ve all grown accustomed to images of dragons with wings in addition to arms. So I wonder: Has anyone ever seen a well thought through design of a six limbed dragon? With wing musculature bypassing the trapezius and latissimus dorsi in a believable way? And extra set of those two muscles? Fitting how and where? And if so: Post an image? Link? A brilliant design of your own?

Could this be an interesting theme for a challenge thread, perhaps?

#2

My Grandfather had a stuffed two headed sheep. It lived for nearly 3 months. No six legged sheep though.

:rolleyes: :lol:

That would be interesting to try though. Maybe an insect or crustaceon as a reference?

#3

:lol: :lol: :lol:

And that has puzzled me, too; what do two-headed creatures look like underneath the skin? The internal workings of two heads on one rib cage?

But insects and shellfish won’t do us much good in this case I’m afraid, as they are exoskeletal and not endoskeletal like dragons, wich makes for completely different muscle structures.

googles a bit

OMG this is disturbing. I simply googled images and “six legs”, and found this:

http://jwz.livejournal.com/499972.html

It’s a six legged living puppy! Poor thing, but it was alive and well, somehow…

Thanks for the input, Blaine91555!

#4

I think I saw something on Dragons in the Fantasy Anatomy Reference Manual a while back… Somewhere after Angels and Centaurs. :smiley:

Sven

#5

A whole section of six-limbed vertebrates, then? Any chance you could shed some light on the case by scanning a couple of pages if you have the book and post some low-res, b&w images with a huge “Fantasy Anatomy Reference Manual”-watermark on them, or would that still be too much of a copyright infringement?

#6

Sorry, I was joking about the Reference Manual, it doesn’t exist. Just pointing out how there are many other mythic creatures with similar unresolved anatomies. :smiley:

Sven

#7

Oh… Heh! You got me there! :o No wonder google just gave me stuff like this.

Bad Svengali! Baaad, I say… :stuck_out_tongue: