Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It flops about awkwardly in the sand as if it were trying to swim, but hates to get wet.

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.