While dragons are non-existant today, research finds that the Komodo dragon has the capability to kill their prey with venom. They secrete venomous proteins in their mouths, venom but to a degree basically. The Komodo is also the world's largest living lizard, or perhaps "dragon".
Stravinsky worked in the same way, in fact, throughout his life, and the same basic principles of construction and dynamics inform Threni and the Requiem Canticles as Petrushka and The Rite of Spring. He had immense influence on the way later composers have felt pulse, rhythm, and form.
