COULD DRAGONS HAVE EXISTED IF EVOLUTION HAD TAKEN A DIFFERENT TURN?

It would have taken quite a few turns for natural selection to have produced dragons.They just don't come packaged in one animal.First up on the dragon checklist: flying.. Dragon wings are usually depicted in one of two ways—a third pair of limbs connected to the backbon., 

 Reptile expert at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, thinks the latter is more plausible.

"It seems that six appendages are very unlikely in vertebrates," he said.

They have got a very large alligator with the wings of a pterosaur that can repel musket fire.Now it just needs to breathe flames. There are no known animals that can spit fire or even a flammable liquid. Big, strong wings are necessary to compensate for the weight of a dragon's skin, which, of course, would need to withstand bow-and-arrow attacks. An alligator's skin, When European settlers first encountered the reptiles, the skin proved to be tough enough to turn away a musket ball, plenty strong for a dragon.

Of course, this is all very theoretical.The could