Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It is very active and playful.

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.

NiliaShine and BrashNilia are two Nilia Pygmy Dragon hatchlings who are best friends. As the oldest hatchlings in their flock, they only had one another for playmates and thus grew very close. They are always together, and even finish one another's mental sentences. These two bad boys rule the roost, they almost bounce off the cave walls their flock lives in.