Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It enjoys playing in shallow water.

And look! It has grown fins, and likes to make bubbles in the water. 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.

Growing faster than her siblings, little Lucky was abandoned by her previous owner. Having to now fend for herself, she swam farther and farther away from the tropical region she grew up in. She was soon frozen, found by her new owner, and saved from ultimate death. Now she happily lives in her new owner's plot of land with an adult tropical dragon.