Other large muscles include a very strong tail, and rear legs. The Western dragon could easily hold a human male's weight while in flight. Then ther is the large jaw muscle Masseter, this muscle can easily crush bones. The dragon can be a huge creature depending on the breed. This type of dragon has extremely large ears, small eyes, spines down its back, and a bone-type spike near the end of its tail.
All dragon breeds are different.
This type of dragon has scales, and some have tough leathery skin. Most dragons have scales of some sort. When born, a dragon's scales are as soft as tissue paper, and slowly harden while the dragon grows. The iron from the blood, or vegetable matter the dragon eats is absorbed by the dragon's blood stream and mixed with the keratin to create almost diamond-hard scales. The process of getting scales as tough as they can get takes about one year after being hatched.