A juvenile dragon, still adorning gray scales. It has not yet developed any elemental powers.
The term "baby dragon" refers to any juvenile dragon with grayish scales and no elemental abilities. They are sometimes referred to as "gray dragons", due to the color of their scales. Although the age of a baby dragon technically ranges from hatchling to roughly 20-25 years of age, baby dragons typically do not leave their mother's nest until they're at least 10 years old. As such, making most of the baby dragons encountered in the UA juveniles ranging from are between 10 to and 20 years old. On average, baby dragons encountered in the UA are roughly 5 feet tall when standing on all four legs, about 6 foot 6 inches long from snout to tail, and weigh approximately 2000 pounds, or about 0.9 metric tons.
Dragons are large creatures resembling winged lizards, possessing a long neck with a reptilian head, a large but slender body, four legs armed with four-toed claws, a pair of bat-like wings, and a long tail armed with spikes at the tip, similar to a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer thagomizer]. Baby dragons learn to use their wings as soon as possible, so that they learn to fly and hover in the air, typically to attack or harass prey (or other dragons) from above.
Dragons of all types are carnivorous, with jaws strong enough to rip the flesh and bones off of humans and other sapients, and have no trouble whatsoever digesting flesh, bone, fat and sinew alike. The digestive system of a dragon is advanced enough to extract and assimilate up to 95% of the proteins, fat, and other nutrients from any of the food they eat. Dragons prefer prey that are both meaty and fat so they are able to extract the most food energy out of them, requiring on average 20 000 kilocalories per day. On rare occasions, dragons have been observed ingesting they will seek and eat food prepared by sapients, up to and including processed food items, though they may often have problems properly digesting such foodsitems. It has been suggested that this Though it is most likely a measure of desperation for driven by survival and not part , some have suggested that certain dragons will pillage food reserves entirely out of normal dragon behaviorspite and hatred.
All dragons, regardless of age and species, are notoriously violent and fearless, known for their refusal to back down from any type of danger. When threatened, dragons will attack the threat until it is destroyed or until they die, with no retreat or backing down, and with notorious amounts of ferocity, as though afflicted by unbridled rage and anger. When hurt or wounded, they are simply further enraged, and seem not to have any concept of "fight-or-flight" - these creatures are all fight, all the time.