Flying predators and the love of Morgan's life

Reptile with bird-like characters

Usually, colors that blend in the environment like sand-yellow, stone-grey and the like.

The color depends on the sub-specie of wyvern: venomous ones have bright colors on their head and neck, night-hunters are in more grey-black-dark blue hues, the less flight-inclined are ground-color while the big flyer shows blue and white-ish hues more often. The rare snow wyverns are in grey and white scales, while those living in forests are brown and green, or black for those of colder climates.

All wyverns are bipedal creatures, with hands at the joint of their wings and a long tail. Their skin is covered in a mixture of scales and feathers.

Desert wyverns are made for gliding, so they have larger wings than most of their cousin. Because they are not native to the desert, they are still fairly large, though naturalists still wonder if it isn't a way to adapt to other, smaller predators. Their neck is covered in smooth scales that let them eat carrion without dirtying themselves.

Savana wyverns are more feline-like, and better runners than flyers, so their wings are way smaller and their body leaner.

Forest wyverns have smaller wings and lean bodies, made for running between trees and busy vegetation. They are also the smaller of all wyverns, but are very venomous. They are more bird-like and live in trees.

Wyverns living in the pine forests of the north shows characters from both forest and frost wyverns, though they tends to be more wolf- than bird-like.

Frost wyverns are the biggest of all, as well as the fluffier. Though their neck and tail are shorter, they are more massive, with large paws similar to snowy owls'. They store fat more easily than others.

Steppes wyverns are quick flyer with aerodinamic bodies and small limbs.

The biggest wyverns can reach 3m, 5 if you include the tail, with the largest wingspan recorded of 14m. The smallest recorded is 1m long, and the smallest wingspan 2m.

From smallest to largest:

Forest - Savana - Steppes - Desert - Cold Forest - Frost

Long neck and tail, sharp talons.

Scales, feathers, leather

Very territorial, predatorial creatures - better not get too close for humans.

Pack wyverns are easier than those who hunts alone.

Ambush attacks

Death from above

Circle you, attack-and-retreat, wolf-style for packs

They are not endurance animals, so their attacks are quick and violent. They target the belly, the throat, or try to incapacitate the legs.

Their scales

Dodging

Flying away

On the ground: The slowest is around 20km/h, the quickest is 60km/h
From slowest to quickest on ground:
Desert - Frost - Cold forest - Forest - Steppes - Savana

In flight: the slowesr is around 35kh/h, the quickest is 80km/h
From slowest to quickest in flight:
Savana - Frost - Desert - Forest - Cold forest - Steppes

Scales

Size

Venom

Fangs

Talons

Strenght

Quickness

Flight

Wings

Some are awkward on land

Some are slow

Some are small

Hawk-, Crow- or Vulture-like cry

Hiss

Snarls

Screeching roar

The things they cannot eat -fur, bones, horns & co. They can eat up to 90% of a kill.

They are supposed to be forest-born, but live all around the continent. They prefer temperate and warm climate, though it never stopped them from evolving in cold af climates

It hunts any kind of animals; as the apex predator of most environment it lives in, it hunts both preys and other predators.

No; some species hibernate.

live alone or in small packs of two to five animals.

Desert: alone when young, live in small family packs, peaceful to each other but not very social
Forest: alone

Our predators, mostly bird of preys, big cats and wolves.

Discount dragons, too.

Similar to the other predators of their environment - scholars think they might evolve memetically (by imitating other predators)

Violence, wilderness, physical power

Ovipar, slow reproductive pattern.