dragons

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This year's carnival featured musical performances, bedazzled horses, huge dragons and dancing stilt walkers.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

The animals -- including shingleback lizards, western blue-tongue lizards, bearded dragons and southern pygmy spiny-tailed skinks -- were posted in 15 packages between 2018 and 2023.

From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026

In medieval Europe, illness affecting people, animals, and crops was often blamed on dragons.

From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2026

It’s also been about 50 years since actual dragons have been seen in the Realm, so the Targaryens are not quite as feared as they once were.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026

“I bet the Pechenegs are just as hostile toward dragons as the tsar is. We couldn’t bring you here as a dragon. They’d kill you. So she changed you.”

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack