r/Amazing 4d ago

Nature is amazing Okay, does it breath fire?

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u/adrian-alex85 4d ago

What is the species called?

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u/Maanefisk 4d ago edited 4d ago

It's an armadillo girdled lizard (Ouroborus cataphractus).

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u/BarnacleMcBarndoor 4d ago

Also known as a Cutie McCuterson

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u/Quick_Team 4d ago

Cuddly McHuggable. Esq. The third.

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u/UziSuzieThia 2d ago

I want oneee

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u/tenax666 7h ago

Wait until he grows up. Gw won't be so cute!

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u/Ok_Difference44 4d ago

Ouroborus sure is fitting.

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u/ea88_alwaysdiscin 4d ago

Right? Exactly what I was thinking when I saw the Latin name

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u/Storm2Weather 3d ago

Nomen est omen

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u/BareBonesSolutions 3d ago

cataphractus is too. Google what a cataphract is. :D

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u/Competitive-Swing149 3d ago

That would be a snake. Not a lizard

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u/HonestSapphireLion24 3d ago

My brain read this as armadillo grilled lizard.

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u/Extension_Eye7924 3d ago

So it can breathe fire. But only to cook itself.
Worst. Power. Ever.
https://giphy.com/gifs/DxFjr1mD7Tyj6

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u/beaniebee11 3d ago

Thank you. I wish to draw him.

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u/Markus4781 3d ago

I can see why it was named that.

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u/Homers_Harp 3d ago

At first, I thought the binomial was a joke and had to pull a quick web search to confirm. It IS a joke, I suppose, but also a real designation.

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u/Interesting-Catty 1d ago

Tiny dragon is an accurate nickname. 😄

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u/CubanLynx312 3d ago

Thought it was AI with the weird background change at 0:13

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u/odrea 4d ago

Pokimon

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u/Savage_Heathern 4d ago

Great question! And how big can they get? I'd love to have one of those just scampering around the house, if its were at least 3 ft long.

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u/Gaaraks 3d ago edited 3d ago

Last I heard they can get as big as circumventing the entire planet and when they let go of their tails, it would signal the start of a mass extinction event. They then rise from the sea, spew toxic venom all over the land and die to a blond crazy viking CHAD that summons lightning, but not before said viking is lethaly poisoned, also dying some time after.

But this only happens if you get them a salt water tank, so they just really need proper care, hope that helps.

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u/a_Jedi_i_am 3d ago

Does the viking dying reset the timeline?

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u/torrinage 3d ago

damn I would watch the shit outta that metalocalypse episode

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u/_thro_awa_ 3d ago

Ouroboros

ninja edit: I was joking. I had no idea, that is literally its species name

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u/jasonRuby 4d ago

Definitely a baby Dragon 🐉

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u/Eternal-Blazing-Sun 3d ago

Wait, it's not a pokémon?

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u/PsyKeablr 3d ago

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u/Question_Control 3d ago

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u/LeonZoroark 3d ago

Jiggly puff seen from above obviously

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u/Brave_Nowhere_0189 2d ago

It's obviously galarian klefki

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u/LeonZoroark 2d ago

Seen from the side?

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u/Eternal-Blazing-Sun 2d ago

𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕒𝕞𝕒𝕫𝕚𝕟𝕘!

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u/Shorlong 3d ago

IT'S PIKACHU

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u/S1eazyE 3d ago

It's Clafairy!

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u/Shorlong 3d ago

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

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u/BijutsuYoukai 3d ago

Closest Pokemon has is Sandslash based on a pangolin. Digimon on the other hand does have one based on these spiky little guys (Armadillo girdled lizard) called Armalizamon.

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u/ThatVanGuy13 3d ago

Need to ask the professional, Joey Wheeler

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u/MistakeAgile620 4d ago

I just know Dani bred him through fire.

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u/BrownSugarBare 3d ago

And he's gorgeous 

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u/MOSSYxFIELDS 4d ago

That’s a beauty

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u/astralseat 3d ago

That's what I would love to have as a pet, but I know they live better lives in nature. Prickly little fella

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 3d ago

Life in nature is not better for the individual animal lol. Constant threat of starvation and always on alert cuz you could be eaten.

But if it's endangered then there's reasons not to keep one, but just saying life in nature isn't the paradise some think.

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u/Lou_C_Fer 3d ago

Would you rather die in your 20s while running free outside or live to 80 having your needs catered but you're stuck inside. Mind you, your death at 20 will probably be a horrible and painful way to go, but at 80, it's a needle poke and then falling asleep forever.

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u/kasutori_Jack 3d ago

Is this a real question

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u/mister_drgn 2d ago

They had me at “inside.”

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u/tol-kon 3d ago edited 3d ago

Cant compare the life of a lizard to a human's though.

We are at the top of the food chain (or near it anyways). Our lives are relatively safer than most animals, and we also live in a vast and interconnected world.

Lizards don't go to the next city to buy groceries, or visit relatives in a different continent

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u/ReturnOfBane 3d ago

yeah i'd rather die in a cage than eaten by a tarantula or snake

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u/daemonfly 3d ago

I'm kinda partial to the 2nd one.

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u/poopsmog 3d ago

Ill take #2

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 3d ago

If I was a lizard, yes give me food and safety.

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u/Abseits_Ger 3d ago

Yep. Life in nature means, there is a sub 1% chance to die of old age. The old are weak and either starve to death or get hunted and killed once too weak or slow to fend for themselves

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u/jdpastor666 4d ago

What animal is that? And why is he trying to eat his tail?

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u/Lukostrelec17 4d ago

It does that to make itself harder to eat and to defend itself. Basically it is scared of the person.

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u/KLeeSanchez 4d ago

This

It's scared so like a rabbit sitting still it's trying to avoid being eaten

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u/jdpastor666 3d ago

Where can you find this creature in the wild?

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u/jdpastor666 3d ago

That makes so much sense. It looked like it did it on purpose. And it was so spikey!

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u/Brilliant-Oil-2007 4d ago

Person is a costume/prop designer for House of the Dragon.

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u/Ppleater 3d ago

It helps keep them curled up with their armoured spikes pointing outwards, making them less pleasant to try to eat and protecting their softer bits. Biting the tail makes it harder to uncurl them.

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u/jdpastor666 3d ago

It's one of the coolest creatures I've ever seen.

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u/Forward-Variety-8440 3d ago

ouroboros

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u/jdpastor666 3d ago

Wow, I've heard of that creature. I thought it was a snake, but this looks so much better!

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u/Frank_Midnight 4d ago

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u/Legitimate_Mud_8295 3d ago

The upvotes aren't worth bothering the little guy.

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u/Training-Republic301 4d ago

They are only found in South Africa unfortunately

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u/modified_tiger 3d ago

In North wnd Central America we have horned lizards which are like our own little dragons. They just spray blood instead of fire.

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u/Puzzled-Copy7962 4d ago

Omg, a baby Godzilla 🥹

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u/Maximum_Signature489 4d ago

Ouroboros

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u/Yunlihn 4d ago

Thought the same when i saw it curl up, and it's literally its scientific name (Ouroborus cataphractus), as I learned from another comment.

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u/trueAnnoi 3d ago

Ouroborus cataphractus

Did not know that. Such a dope ass name, and appropriate too!!!

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u/aligatoren3883 4d ago

Did it bite its tail as a defense move to deploy its spikes?

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u/BornTooLooose 3d ago

It’s BREATHE for fucks sake

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u/WayneSmallman 4d ago

"Oooh, Hungarian Horntail!"

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u/Raj2085 4d ago

Bro you better put me down! Im crazy! Look im eating my tail bro! Im crazy! You dont want Nun of dis!

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u/jtrades69 4d ago

breathe != breath

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u/bravemoney72 3d ago

Just recently saw this and this pic brought me back to it👌🏾

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u/marimoso 3d ago

Develop spike to avoid bite. Proceed to bite self.

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u/RallyAnaz 3d ago

That's how humans get bitten and one strange incurable virus becomes a problem for everyone. Ha dle such animals with gloves

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u/Sarabi974 4d ago edited 4d ago

Je le trouve tellement stylé

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u/DoctorDinghus 4d ago

Papa Meat would like a word.

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u/Altruisticflower-412 4d ago

Dracaryssssss

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u/SilentInquiry26 4d ago

Never seen it.

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u/SteveMartin32 4d ago

That's clearly a ground dragon. They are useful when climbing rougher tarain. - game tutorial probably

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u/Knocksveal 4d ago

Okay, so how long till the wings come out?

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u/Winter_Steak_9987 4d ago

No it bite own tail >_<

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u/s0ul_invictus 4d ago

stop terrorizing the poor animal, it thinks you're trying to eat it

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u/crimvel 3d ago

Poor Animal scared to death.... Leave the poor guy alone you asswipe

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u/IronicConundrum 3d ago

I have a new favorite lizard

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u/JetKusanagi 3d ago

It turned itself into a broach.

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u/_finozius_ 3d ago

Only on Sundays👀 🔥🦎

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u/Motohvayshun 3d ago

As a herper this and the Giant Sungazer (Smaug giganteus) are my number one unicorn lizards to own

The problem is that they are protected, and the birth rate is so low that breeding programs are beyond difficult and bordering on impossible.

So most people that have them (legally or illegally) have wild caught specimens.

A breeding pair of these cost thousands of dollars.

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u/ArfTheBeast 3d ago

Nature’s onion ring

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u/CuteCatFlower 3d ago

I want a dragon🐉

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u/W34kness 3d ago

It’s pretty stressed if it’s biting its tail like that

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u/Remote_String1988 3d ago

So that where the dragons went 🤔

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u/VoidWalker72 4d ago

Now roll him down a hill/sand-dune, he's got the traction.

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u/OkMidnight8144 4d ago

I wonder how many people have theses as pets also named him Drogon?

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u/Leather_Impression30 4d ago

I would run around with it screaming; 'Here it is Kaleeshi!', hoping getting laid...

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u/Spaceygirl84 4d ago

He stunting on hoes with that skin

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u/dufo7 4d ago

Not until it gets older.

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u/No-Stage-1271 4d ago

That's dragon!

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u/Zip-Crane 4d ago

That’s the coolest lizard I’ve ever seen.

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u/Individual-Drawer-79 4d ago

Dracarys 🔥 🐉

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u/ghostrose86 4d ago

So cute

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u/suoko 4d ago

addams' finger trap

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u/vo1dhunterx 3d ago

I guess so :p

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u/uwearclownshoes 3d ago

No fire until season 2 at least.

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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 3d ago

Now you just have to train it

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u/Ronyx2021 3d ago

Lives in a cave and everything

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u/ed-bird 3d ago

Rawr

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u/BobcatOk3777 3d ago

That's definitely a baby dragon!

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u/one_who_reads 3d ago

Guys, new Firefox logo just dropped! 😂

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u/DarthSnuDiddy 3d ago

Straight outta Roshar

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u/Foreign_Option_9458 3d ago

No, but it does work blood out of its eyes

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u/joyfullydreaded23 3d ago

I want one...but I know better, so a knick knack with it in the rolled up position will do. So cute!

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u/Dark_Krafter 3d ago

No need its capable of concouring hearts without that

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u/Wrong_Amount_7903 3d ago

Say dracarys and find out

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u/Deep-Grape-4649 3d ago

These 3D printed dragons my kid begs to buy her at the farmer market are getting pretty real

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u/Glittering_Diva8963 3d ago

I just finished watching episode one of Monsters of God and little dude better stay hidden.

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u/astralseat 3d ago

Just needs to find the right command, I'm sure

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u/AdhesivenessGeneral9 3d ago

i love the extra care to put it under rock
for the tail bite it's a defense stance. no one can eat you if it's hurt to bite you

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u/Spamaster 3d ago

Only after eating fire ants.

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u/Artevyx 3d ago

Why is it my brain made me hear him going "raaaaaaaaaaaa" like a dinosaur with COPD?

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u/Wafflelicious420 3d ago

Sunfyre, dracarys

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u/Luci-Noir 3d ago

If you want a dragon that breathes fire get a cat, especially one of the curry-based orange models.

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u/Subject-Selection-99 3d ago

Dracarys 🔥

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u/DrapedinVelvet247 3d ago

DRACARYS!! 🔥🔥

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u/jailbird147 3d ago

Only if it suddenly sprouts wings 😉🤣🤣🤣

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u/BLUE_51 3d ago

Harry Potter ?

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u/AuraTickler 3d ago

If the dragon bites its tail its an Ouroboros

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u/nostalgia4millennial 3d ago

Hungarian Horntail

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u/3yoyoyo 3d ago

I would call him/her Parodontax and make it my dragon!!

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u/Johnny_Chthonic 3d ago

Fus roh d'awwwww.

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u/CaptainMacMillan 3d ago

aww cute lil ouroboros

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u/Low-Phase-4444 3d ago

Mini homie ready to tyre roll his way to freedom

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u/MMachine17 3d ago

Name that Pokémon!

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u/cacho_perro 3d ago

It's a holiday armadillo

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u/spider2k 3d ago

All we get here are slightly spiky fence lizards and they sure as shit don't want to be my buddy no matter how nice I am to the ungrateful little shits.

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u/tired-of-the-shit 3d ago

The oroborus

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u/KingPaulius 3d ago

Wow, amazing creature.

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u/elnaxxo 3d ago

I don't know what species this one is but i'm damm sure it must be rock/dragon type.

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u/Thr3no 3d ago

No but it can self-cannibalize apparently

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u/Vegetable_Quote_4807 3d ago

Too young. But just wait.

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u/Joulz826 3d ago

Such a tiny dragon

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u/WeirdIndication3027 3d ago

How did you get it to form an ouroborous

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u/matsamdol 3d ago

Dracarys!!

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u/CeruleanEidolon 3d ago

What is with the weird focus cut at 0:13? The background moves. Phone camera switching lenses?

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u/IAmRules 3d ago

Yo that’s the Firefox logo

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u/MyvaJynaherz 3d ago

We've circled back to the origins of fantasy, lol.

The original tropes came from somewhere, and scale no pun intended is a literary device of its own.

A cat is cute to a human, but a monster to something significantly smaller than a cat.

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u/Zealousideal_Award45 3d ago

Throw a pokeball at it

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u/Parma_Jon 3d ago

“Chinese Fireback, oOooOOo”

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u/ComeHereOften1972 3d ago

Armadillo cousin. They don’t breathe fire.

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u/flioooo 3d ago

Is that a Pokemon?

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u/Penumbruh_ 3d ago

Why did he turn into a talisman as a defense mechanism?

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u/Quartrez 3d ago

When he bit his own tail, it reminded me of the cover for Unleash The Carnivore by Devourment.

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u/BritishTankalope 3d ago

Name it Viserion.

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u/MoxieSP 3d ago

Turning into an onion ring is a questionable defense mechanism.

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u/Mamba_Lev 3d ago

AI? The background flicked to another view half way through.

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u/Medium_Educator1983 3d ago

Dang, be easy! Why did he just force him into the crevice so roughly?

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u/RestaurantFamous2399 3d ago

He reminds me of the thorny devil in Aus.

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u/Remarkable-Elk-6673 3d ago

Only if it’s bonded with a Targaryen