Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It seems to sleep during the day and glow when it wakes up at night.

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.

A friendly creature, this small hatchling much enjoys playing games with the other nocturnal hatchlings. Tag, hide-and-seek, marco polo... but as fun as they all are, there is one frustration: she never seems to win! The poor thing has chalked this up to a lack of skill, but the other giggling hatchlings know very well that it's simply because her glowing makes her a very easy target to locate, especially in the dark.