Please don’t laugh but what if fire breathing dragons were real but they have gone into extinction.

So before you downvote or jump at me just hear me out.

What if fire breathing dragons were real and they were the creatures that blew on prophet Ibrahim (A.S) and it became that killing them became a good deed to the point of making them extinct and they were considered fire breathing lizards?

The Prophet Muhammad said:

“Whoever kills a gecko (lizard) with the first strike will have such-and-such reward; if he kills it with the second strike, he will have a lesser reward; and if with the third, even less.”

— Reported in Sahih Muslim

Another narration explains the reason:

The gecko used to blow on the fire of Ibrahim (peace be upon him), when he was thrown into it.