Chapter 22: The Yarsaurus and the Black-scaled Bird-Faced Dragon
A new day arrives, and the sun is falling from the direction of the entrance to the crypt, with a slight shadow of the leaves of the low plants.
The elongated shadow couldn't make out the prototype, but the ground line wasn't interested.
Dixing was staring at two eggs.
In his sight, among the two strange eggs, the heartbeat that represented the arrival of life became clearer and clearer.
The size of two eggs does not follow the young dragon.
The long axis is close to fifty centimeters, and the short axis is also thirty centimeters.
That's bigger than the eggs of many larger dinosaurs.
Some dinosaurs are five or six meters long, and the long axis of the egg is only 20 or 30 centimeters.
But the local bank is very calm about this problem, or very happy.
Fortunately, he didn't have the hands to add anything to the setting that he would have to go through the growth period after hatching.
These eggs are able to hatch directly into adults.
Or, to be precise, "manufactured" an adult guard.
On an egg, there are not many features, it is ordinary off-white.
The other egg has black patches on it, and the material resembles some kind of scale.
After carefully observing the eggshell left by the unfortunate death of the little Chilong, he can confirm that the eggshell is probably reconstituted from the bones of the material.
But it doesn't matter.
He hatched a Yarsaurus and a Bird-Faced Dragon.
Both were small dinosaurs.
The three children of [Fabrication Guard], [Full Hatching], [Convergence Hatching], and [Template Hatching], Yarlong uses the [Full Clone] Hatching option that does not require a template and is OK if there are materials.
The Bird-Faced Dragon uses the Black-scaled Kobold as the base to use [Convergence Hatching].
If successful, he will receive a Yarlosaurus and a creature that has "evolved" into the form of a bird-faced dragon and is in the same family as the kobold.
It didn't take long for the "heartbeat" sound that appeared in the "fluctuation" sense to become completely clear.
The two guard eggs also shook slightly.
The biggest movement was the black spotted guard egg.
Click-
With a cracking sound, a crack appeared in the black spot's eggshell, and then, a sharp claw shattered the eggshell.
A familiar and unfamiliar dinosaur emerges from an eggshell.
It is about 70 centimeters long, with a slender body, and its hind limbs are erect on both feet, and its forelimbs are short.
However, on its body, it is covered with feathers.
The color is close to the grayish-black color of the scales of the black-scaled kobold, and, if you look closely, you will notice that the texture of these "feathers" is quite hard.
Although feathers are also keratinized, the hardness and texture of these feathers are closer to scales.
Its beak, which is clearly close to that of a bird, is also grayish-black.
After the strange bird-faced dragon emerged from the eggshell, the pair of black-red eyes looked to the side.
The classification of dinosaurs, like most paleontological classifications, is "in progress", according to different criteria, there are many divisions, and the various categories can be merged or split at any time.
According to the classification method that impresses the ground and should not be disassembled and merged in a short time, dinosaurs can be divided into three major categories, ornithischians, theropods, and sauropods.
In an older way, the classification is only divided into ornithischian and lizard-hips, and theropods and sauropods are subcategories of these two categories.
Most of the dinosaurs of the bird's hip class have a pelvic structure similar to a bird's beak and a bird, and are phytofeeding, and the most classic representative is the triceratops.
The theropod dinosaurs, most of them are carnivorous, bipedal walking, the most classic representatives, naturally are the Tyrannosaurus rex, the ornithistosaurus and the current posture of the earth, the heroic velociraptor rex, are all theropods.
Sauropods, on the other hand, are mostly quadrupedal and herbivorous, representing dinosaurs with long necks such as brontosaurus brachiosaurus.
However, this ornithistosaurus is not a dinosaur.
It's like the relationship between dinosaurs and reptiles, no, the relationship between Zygosaurus and sauromorphs?
No, and it's not right, should it be said that the relationship between fish and marine reptiles?
The kinship is very distant, it just looks alike, and even the structure and function are inconsistent.
In his previous life, there were many branches of the Zygosaurus, and in the "modern era", only the mammalian branch survived and grew into the Mammalian class.
The offspring of the clade of the sauromorphs include dozens of crocodiles, beaks with only single-digit species, scales of lizards and snakes with thousands of species, and hundreds of turtles and birds formed by non-avian dinosaurs.
The first four support the contours of reptiles in modern taxonomy, and birds are even the only ones that can single out the entire reptile.
This bird-faced dragon was not the bird-faced dragon he remembered.
There are two major benchmarks of genetic characteristics, homology and homogeneity.
Of course, the benchmark of kinship is based on the homology and the distance of the branches, and it is impossible to use the same function as the benchmark.
Otherwise, there are more wings with flying functions, and they can rely on wings to fly, and they are all of the same kind?
Determining the classification principle, the earth line immediately determined the location and name of the bird-faced dragon, not only the illustrated book, but also the label.
【Otherworldly Black-scaled Bird-Faced Dragon】
[Otherworldly Black-scaled Bird-faced Dragon: Based on the black-scaled kobolds that inhabit the underworld and near swamps, the Bird-Faced Dragons converge and hatch, with similar physical characteristics to the Bird-Faced Dragons]
If he could pull a phylogenetic tree on the Bestiary interface, he would definitely move the Pokédex to the branch of the Blackscale Kobold.
[Life Lv. 1], [Underground Environment Adaptation Lv. 1], [Homogeneous Species - Dinosaur Lv. 1], [Small Animal Lv. 1], [Swamp Specialization Lv. 1], [Predator Lv. 1], [Omnivorous Lv. 1], [Social Gregary Lv. 1], [Black Dragon Bloodline Lv. 1]
The other tags, the terrain is more familiar.
But......
Sure enough, there is the label of "convergent species".
[Convergence Species - Dinosaur Lv1: You can act with guards with the "Dinosaur" tag and enjoy group class bonuses.] Requires a command value of +1, and the probability of being attacked by allies in battle increases.
- "Be careful, it may be seen as an outlier by the other members, oh no, it's an outlier"]
A tag that has a probability of appearing after using [Convergence Incubation] or [Template Incubation].
In general, it is difficult to appear.
If you use dinosaurs as a template, you will only appear when you use a variety of insects, fish, shrimp, echinoderms, and other substrates that are too different.
Even if you use a sea crawler or crocodile like a dragon turtle, it is difficult to get such a label.
Otherworldly races.......
No matter how similar they look, the blood relationship is too far apart.
If there are creatures like humans in this world, then the humans who live in the past life are also completely two races.
It is far from the blood relationship between various bacteria and humans.
As his thoughts drifted, his gaze turned to the [Complete Clone] hatched Yarlong.
It is also a bipedal creature with hind limbs, but it has a different appearance from Ornithistosaurus and Velociraptor Earthwalker.
After all, this is a swollen-headed dragon, albeit small.