Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It likes to play in small piles of sand.

And look! Its wings have grown larger! 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 dragon is interesting in that he firmly believes he is not a dragon, but rather a shark. He can often be seen rocketing around in shallow coastal waters, making most unsharklike roars and nipping at his friend's ankles. His buddies often tease him that he has awful floppy fins for a shark, to which he responds that they are that way because they are also good for slapping the insolent.