Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It must be very shy since it keeps hiding from you.

It’s gotten slightly bigger! 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.

Lucky clover is one of a kind. In her group of hatchlings at the last minute she got cold feet about turning into a adult so she asked her owner to freeze her so she would be a youngster forever. She now is still trying to find her place in the cave.