Dragons are usually shown in modern times with a body like a huge lizard, or a snake with two pairs of lizard-type legs, and able to emit fire from their mouths. The European dragon has bat-like wings growing from its back.A dragon-like creature with wings but only a single pair of legs is known as a wyvern.lthough the indigenous name for a dragon in Japanese is tatsu (ãã¤) , a few of the Japanese words for dragon stem from the Chinese word for dragon, namely, ryÅ« (ããã) or ryÅ (ããã) (traditional :é¾; simplified :ç«).
Each peppered moth in the samples was identified by phenotype as melanic (solid black), typical (patterned wings), or intermediate (insularia). The range of phenotypic differences results from multiple alleles at a single locus, with the allele producing full melanism as dominant (Lees and Creed 1977; West 1977).
1 The largest known moths are the Atlas moths (Saturniidae) with wingspans as large as 12 inches. 2  Click here to see a photograph of an atlas moth. 3  The smallest known moths are from the pygmy moth family (Nepticulidae) with wingspans as small as 3/32 of an inch. 4  Click here to see a photograph of a pygmy moth.ore fascinating facts about butterflies and moths. 1  There are many more species of moths than butterflies. 2  Butterflies and skippers (hooked-shaped antennae) make up 6 to 11 percent of Lepidoptera order, while moths make up 89-94 percent of the Lepidoptera order.