"First Dragon" by Ana Teresa ´Catwings´ Campaniço

I always wondered how the first dragon would be liked, so I draw this one directly from the 'dino-age'.

This little reptille (a dradon) lived through the Cretassic Period; it had bone plates on back and belly, it could see a long distance, it had a very good hearing and a good sense of smell, it was capable of climbing and of short flyghts, it measured 10 inches, but is 'pepper' breath (a capability typical of almost dragons) came with the help of a little plant: the weezer weed.
This plant produced a curl of sticky berries, that could destroy the stomach walls by increasing the power of the stomach acids; the only creature that could eat these berries was the dradon, with the secondary effect of the pepper breath.
Over the next million years he stoped needing that plant (now extinct) to produce fire, and that same fire saved him from the ice-age, evolving to our very well known dragons.