Aww... It’s a cute baby drake. It has the colors of a bright summer day.

Young drakes 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 marks the beginning of maturation. At this point they are often capable of hunting on their own.

This hatchling was forced out of its egg prematurely.