Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It loves watching the reflection of stars in the water.

And look! It has grown wings! It must be close to maturing.

Young dragons are relatively defenseless. They are born with relatively soft scales, which are shed and replaced with harder ones as the hatchling matures. Once a hatchling’s wings grow in, it typically marks the beginning of maturation. At this point they are often capable of hunting on their own and are usually left alone by their mother.

This hatchling is sitting on top of the world (how it got there is a different story). It has a less ambitious twin that is content with sitting on the dock of the bay. This proves that twins are not always alike, although this may have something to do with the fact that the hatchlings are dizygotic twins.