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There are also a number of large lizards - komodo dragons and other variations of monitor lizards, alligators and crocodiles, pythons and other large snakes, and the various members of the iguana family - that have visual characteristics of mythologized dragons. Add in the human propensity to exaggerate and you end up with a series of increasingly dramatic artistic reinterpretations of a real animal.
There are also a number of large lizards - komodo dragons and other variations of monitor lizards, alligators and crocodiles, pythons and other large snakes, and the various members of the iguana family - that have visual characteristics of mythologized dragons. Add in the human propensity to exaggerate and you end up with a series of increasingly dramatic artistic reinterpretations of a real animal.