For instance: “Find a fur-beaked beldronk that finds a saint hard to swallow.

His staff has invented fanciful ones - horned thrumble, speckled forktail - that are also clues.ĭuring the 90-minute hunt, teams of two to six - one must be a grown-up - will try to answer 22 questions. “You’re going to recognize them and learn their names by going through the museum.” That dragon varieties don’t have names hasn’t deterred him. “The premise is that this is a field guide to dragons,” said Bret Watson, the company’s founder and president. But families will discover them anew on Saturday, when Watson Adventures presents its latest expedition, the How to Find Your Dragon Scavenger Hunt, for children 7 and older. Of course, they’ve been captured already: in paint, wood, brass, gold and other materials. Not to slay them - that’s so 12th century - but to seek them.

But now it’s time for a more exotic New York species: dragons at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. You’ve heard the tales of alligators in the sewers, coyotes in the parks and, lately, fishers in the Bronx.

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