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).
Their colors tracked our history. The story of the peppered moth still leaves us to wonder about the evolution of color in the natural world, beyond the dark Satanic mills. Thousands of miles away from Englandâs peppered moths, a species of walking stick insects called Timema cristinae lives in the hills of southern California. A new study shows that they feel the pressure of evolution on their color, too.