This phylogeny was created using the neighbour-joining method with a trait matrix encoded from historical depictions of dragons (e.g. Raphael, Da Vinci). Each end point represents a different species (i.e. painting or sketch) and the lines show the hypothesized evolutionary relationships among them.

nice illustration ;)

Can't wait to get my dragon phylogeny t-shirt :) Good job!

Thanks guys! Sorry about the typo, obviously I will fix it for the final submission... if it is chosen...

really nice!

shouldn't it be Serpentidae, not Serpentedae?

Very nice.

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Nice! ;)

Typos to fix: Phylogeny, not pylogeny; Serpentidae not Serpentedae Thanks guys!

This is a piece of significance.

Very cool

$5

This is awesome! $5

many monster!~@@ awesome

cool

Cool illustration!!!

I added a Blog Post explaining how this was made: Dragon Phylogeny Explained

And by 'made' I mean 'calculated'

Like it a lot! Would buy the shirt!

Absolutely love it, but I'm a bit confused about where Orientalia fits in? Cos the line from its origin looks to be disconnected.

we want one of these

kewl

:P

Like it! 5

Love it! 5

GREAT!$5

I want it!

Wantwantwant! Great work.

good one!

Wow, what a rally over the last 24 hrs! Thanks all. Ollie - the line for Orientalia is partly rubbed out from the 'weathered' look. Maybe I will tweak that in the final design as well...

Please make this without using that font. It would look nice in handwriting, perhaps?

wooh!would buy

Would love half a dozen - we have a dragon in our family! Great design and background work!

You guys are amazing! Keep an eye on our facebook.com/DragonPhylogeny Facebook Page and @DragonPhylogeny Twitter account for news on upcoming projects. Or just to geek out about dragons

Interesting work!

Veronica Belmont from Sword and Laser sent me. 5! :)

Hey folks. Gave you a shout out on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/dragons/comments/ynh0l/dragon_family_tree_springs_from_scientists/

(Thx to chethcheth for posting the direct link!)

Best of luck to you :)

Wrote about you on Wired Italy: http://daily.wired.it/news/scienza/2012/08/24/evoluzione-draghi-183456.html (Italian, sorry)

Very creative man!

omgosh i never saw this. so rad!