Editing Ancient Dragon

{{species infobox
|image=[[File:SMBW Ancient Dragon Artwork.jpg|300px]]<br>Artwork of an Ancient Dragon from ''Super Mario Bros. Wonder''
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Bros. Wonder]]'' ([[List of games by date#2023|2023]])
|variant_of=[[Dragon]]
}}
{{quote|Imagine what it would be like for those fossilized dragons to soar freely through the air...|''[[Super Mario Bros. Wonder]]'' loading screen}}
'''Ancient Dragons'''<ref name=NintendoMagazine>[https://www.nintendo.com/jp/software/feature/magazine_2023winter/index_en.html?page=25 Nintendo Magazine 2023 Winter (Digital English edition)]. ''nintendo.co.jp''. Retrieved November 21, 2023. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20231121152558/https://www.nintendo.com/jp/software/feature/magazine_2023winter/index_en.html?page=25&device=pc Archived] November 21, 2023, 15:25:58 UTC via Wayback Machine.)</ref> are an extinct [[dragon]] species that appears in ''[[Super Mario Bros. Wonder]]''. In their living form, they resemble {{wp|Chinese dragon}}s.

Ancient Dragon fossils can be found in most of [[Deep Magma Bog]]'s [[level]]s as either flat [[Semisolid Platform]]s or rotating circular platforms like the [[wheel lift]]s of ''[[Yoshi's Story]]''. The fossilized dragons can be temporarily brought back to life during [[Wonder Effect]]s in [[Dragon Boneyard]], [[Deep Magma Bog Special Solar Roller]], and [[The Final Battle! Bowser's Rage Stage]]. Living Ancient Dragons travel through the air and through [[lava]] on set paths like the [[Dragon (Yoshi's Story)|dragon]]s from ''Yoshi's Story'', though they have a wider range of motion and may loop on themselves unlike the latter.

In Dragon Boneyard, an Ancient Dragon serves as a platform that the player must ride to locate a [[Wonder Seed]]. Three flying Ancient Dragons appear in Deep Magma Bog Special Solar Roller and act as platforms for [[Spike-Ball Mario]] to roll on. A single Ancient Dragon appears in The Final Battle! Bowser's Rage Stage to transport the player over a gap. A [[dark]]-obscured Ancient Dragon that helps the player touch the names floating by also appears in the end credits.

==Profiles==
*'''''Nintendo Magazine 2023 Winter''''': "''The fossilized dragon is now alive with Wonder power?! Before it became a fossil, it appears to have been soaring through the sky freely.''"<ref name=NintendoMagazine />

==Gallery==
<gallery>
SMBW dragon.png|A revived Ancient Dragon, as seen in [[The Final Battle! Bowser's Rage Stage]]
SMBW Fossilized Dragon Screenshot.jpeg|A fossilized Ancient Dragon acting as a circular platform that guards a [[10-flower coin]]
Dragon Boneyard Wonder Seed.jpg|The Ancient Dragon in lava near the Wonder Seed in Dragon Boneyard
SMBW Dragon Boneyard Wonder Effect.jpg|The Ancient Dragon past the [[Goal Pole]] in Dragon Boneyard
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jpn=化石ドラゴン
|JpnR=Kaseki Doragon
|JpnM=Fossil Dragon
|Fre=Dragon
|Ita=Dragone fossile
|ItaM=Fossil dragon
|Spa=Dragón fosilizado
|SpaM=Fossilized Dragon
}}

==References==
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[[Category:Dragons]]
[[Category:Platforms]]
[[Category:Water creatures]]
[[Category:Super Mario Bros. Wonder species]]
[[Category:Wonder Effect elements]]
[[it:Dragone fossile]]