@gorkspewdium  
Very useful to know the US State capitals.

@The Neutrino  
It’s never too late to channel Wakko Warner.

@gorkspewdium  
+1 for use of “faboo”.

@Trickquestion  
Or, more to the point, whatever the writer decides it to be. Cheerfully agreed that the matter varies considerably depending on creators. Speculation’s still fun when they don’t bother spelling out things like evolutionary lineage.

@Kolbjorn
 
@gorkspewdium  
Are all ya’ll forgetting “de magiks?” A dragon can be whatever it dang well wants to be, from a tiny winged worm on end of a knight’s lance to an immortal super-wizard who can have children with anything from plants to whales.

@Kolbjorn  
Guess I should’ve clarified further: my headcanon involves FiM dragons as reptiles, but reptiles closer to mammals than RL snakes, lizards & crocodilians. And in-universe taxonomy aside, ancient civilizations were amalgamating different animal bits into ‘their’ dragons well before modern paleo-discoveries. There’s even been some conjecture as to whether Asian ‘dragons’ should be lumped in with the western variety at all.

@gorkspewdium  
I dont think that being warm-blooded or having feathers or fur automatically means that they are not reptiles. Most paleontologist agree that theropod dinosaurs where warm-blooded and very active, also some theropods, and some pterosaus, had proto-feather structures that looked like fur and even feathers

@Kolbjorn  
Be they western drakes or eastern lung/ryu, dragons can & have incorporated a lot of mammalian traits, whether subtle (warm-blooded energy levels, body language, social bric-a-brac) or physically visible (antlers, whiskers, manes, bat wings, full-body coats, etc.). ‘Course, you also have dragons with fishy bits (though I suppose those intersect with sea serpents) and birdy bits (beaks, feathers, etc.) in media both old & new, so categorization outside of any specific show/book/film is kind of a wash.
 
@SquiggyBomb  
Between Spike’s post-hatching nursing reflex (e.g. sucking his thumb) and other drakes’ faboo heads of hair, I’m inclined to file pone-verse dragons under Therapsida, which would basically make ’em a proto-mammal group with a few basic traits in common with full bore milk-suckers. How this affects his wedding tackle is entirely up to you-they come in all shapes & sizes with a range that HUEG.

@Kolbjorn  
Fair enough darling.

@SquiggyBomb  
Because I take my mythological creatures very seriously, and Im a big fan of dragons, dinosaurs and godzilla

@Kolbjorn  
Keyword.  
LIKE. Not exactly a reptile. Just similar to one. And Why are we arguing the correct portrayal of a creature that doesn’t exist?

@SquiggyBomb  
lets ask the oxford dictionary  
dragon  
Line breaks: dragon  
Pronunciation: /ˈdraɡ(ə)n /  
Definition of dragon in English:  
NOUN
 
1A mythical monster like a giant reptile. In European tradition the dragon is typically fire-breathing and tends to symbolize chaos or evil, whereas in East Asia it is usually a beneficent symbol of fertility, associated with water and the heavens.

@Kolbjorn  
@Background Pony #0F94  
Dragons≠Reptiles

@Kolbjorn  
So it evens out

@SquiggyBomb  
funfact: reptiles penises are small in relation to the body size