False dragons are a species of modern non-avian dinosaurs alive in modern times native to subtropical rainforests, swamps, forests, grasslands, savannas, scrublands, and deserts of North America. They resemble a long-extinct parksosaurus, but with a longer snout with tusks for defense against predators. They are mostly herbivorous, feeding on leaves, berries, grass, roots, tubers, bulbs, ferns, and cycads, but also likes to feed on carrion, insects, fish, smaller reptiles, small mammals, and eggs to supplement their diet or if their plant food is scarce, making them omnivores. They evolved from a surviving group of troodons that evolved to replace the extinct Mesozoic pachycephalosaurs and small ornithopods. They are also tolerating human activities and adapting to human settlements. Their main predators are Eastern wounders, Western wounders, coyotes (depending on a species of false dragon), cougars, bears, and wolves. They were named by early European settlers, who once thought these animals were dragons, but as their dna shows in 1950's, false dragons are actually not dragons at all, but are modern day dinosaurs.
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