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>>a lizard with wings flying despite clearly not being being able to physically do so??????
nta and I don't really care about this conversation, so I'll go on a tangent:

I believe eastern dragons offer enough of a precedent to suggest that other draconic and/or magical creatures too may supplement their flight capabilities with magic, where their bodyplan or wings would be utterly insufficient

now the question is whether the first ancestor to true dragons was winged or not, because I'm led to think it would be, and that all non-winged dragons lost the wings later on during the evolution of the group, but then logically speaking the magical abilities would have had to come after the wings were already present, or otherwise they wouldn't have had the need for wings if they could fly with magical powers alone
meaning the ancestor of dragons was a way smaller winged version of them that could fly without magic