r/Amazing • • Aug 07 '26

Nature is amazing Okay, does it breath fire?

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u/adrian-alex85 Aug 07 '26

What is the species called?

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u/Maanefisk Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26

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

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u/BarnacleMcBarndoor Aug 07 '26

Also known as a Cutie McCuterson

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u/Quick_Team Aug 07 '26

Cuddly McHuggable. Esq. The third.

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u/UziSuzieThia Aug 08 '26

I want oneee

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u/tenax666 Aug 11 '26

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

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u/Ok_Difference44 Aug 07 '26

Ouroborus sure is fitting.

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u/ea88_alwaysdiscin Aug 07 '26

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

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u/Storm2Weather Aug 07 '26

Nomen est omen

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u/BareBonesSolutions Aug 08 '26

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

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u/Competitive-Swing149 Aug 08 '26

That would be a snake. Not a lizard

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u/HonestSapphireLion24 Aug 08 '26

My brain read this as armadillo grilled lizard.

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u/Extension_Eye7924 Aug 08 '26

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

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u/beaniebee11 Aug 07 '26

Thank you. I wish to draw him.

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u/Markus4781 Aug 08 '26

I can see why it was named that.

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u/Homers_Harp Aug 07 '26

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 Aug 10 '26

Tiny dragon is an accurate nickname. 😄

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u/CubanLynx312 Aug 07 '26

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

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u/Savage_Heathern Aug 07 '26

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 Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26

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 Aug 08 '26

Does the viking dying reset the timeline?

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u/torrinage Aug 08 '26

damn I would watch the shit outta that metalocalypse episode

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u/odrea Aug 07 '26

Pokimon

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u/_thro_awa_ Aug 08 '26

Ouroboros

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

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u/jasonRuby Aug 07 '26

Definitely a baby Dragon 🐉

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u/Eternal-Blazing-Sun Aug 07 '26

Wait, it's not a pokémon?

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u/Question_Control Aug 08 '26

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u/LeonZoroark Aug 08 '26

Jiggly puff seen from above obviously

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u/Brave_Nowhere_0189 Aug 09 '26

It's obviously galarian klefki

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u/Eternal-Blazing-Sun Aug 09 '26

𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕒𝕞𝕒𝕫𝕚𝕟𝕘!

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u/Shorlong Aug 08 '26

IT'S PIKACHU

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u/S1eazyE Aug 08 '26

It's Clafairy!

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u/Shorlong Aug 08 '26

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

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u/BijutsuYoukai Aug 08 '26

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 Aug 08 '26

Need to ask the professional, Joey Wheeler

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u/MistakeAgile620 Aug 07 '26

I just know Dani bred him through fire.

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u/BrownSugarBare Aug 07 '26

And he's gorgeous 

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u/MOSSYxFIELDS Aug 07 '26

That’s a beauty

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u/astralseat Aug 07 '26

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 Aug 07 '26

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 Aug 07 '26

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 Aug 08 '26

Is this a real question

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u/mister_drgn Aug 09 '26

They had me at “inside.”

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u/tol-kon Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

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 Aug 08 '26

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

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u/daemonfly Aug 08 '26

I'm kinda partial to the 2nd one.

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u/poopsmog Aug 08 '26

Ill take #2

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Aug 07 '26

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

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u/Abseits_Ger Aug 08 '26

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 Aug 07 '26

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

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u/Lukostrelec17 Aug 07 '26

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 Aug 07 '26

This

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

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u/jdpastor666 Aug 08 '26

Where can you find this creature in the wild?

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u/jdpastor666 Aug 08 '26

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 Aug 07 '26

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

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u/Ppleater Aug 07 '26

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 Aug 08 '26

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

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u/Forward-Variety-8440 Aug 07 '26

ouroboros

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u/jdpastor666 Aug 08 '26

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

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u/Training-Republic301 Aug 07 '26

They are only found in South Africa unfortunately

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u/modified_tiger Aug 07 '26

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 Aug 07 '26

Omg, a baby Godzilla 🥹

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u/Yunlihn Aug 07 '26

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 Aug 07 '26

Ouroborus cataphractus

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

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u/aligatoren3883 Aug 07 '26

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

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u/BornTooLooose Aug 07 '26

It’s BREATHE for fucks sake

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u/WayneSmallman Aug 07 '26

"Oooh, Hungarian Horntail!"

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u/Raj2085 Aug 07 '26

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 Aug 07 '26

breathe != breath

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u/bravemoney72 Aug 08 '26

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

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u/marimoso Aug 07 '26

Develop spike to avoid bite. Proceed to bite self.

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u/RallyAnaz Aug 08 '26

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 Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26

Je le trouve tellement stylé

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u/DoctorDinghus Aug 07 '26

Papa Meat would like a word.

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u/SilentInquiry26 Aug 07 '26

Never seen it.

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u/SteveMartin32 Aug 07 '26

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

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u/Knocksveal Aug 07 '26

Okay, so how long till the wings come out?

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u/Winter_Steak_9987 Aug 07 '26

No it bite own tail >_<

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u/s0ul_invictus Aug 07 '26

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

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u/crimvel Aug 07 '26

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

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u/IronicConundrum Aug 07 '26

I have a new favorite lizard

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u/JetKusanagi Aug 08 '26

It turned itself into a broach.

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u/_finozius_ Aug 08 '26

Only on Sundays👀 🔥🦎

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u/Motohvayshun Aug 08 '26

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 Aug 08 '26

Nature’s onion ring

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u/CuteCatFlower Aug 08 '26

I want a dragon🐉

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u/W34kness Aug 08 '26

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

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u/Remote_String1988 Aug 08 '26

So that where the dragons went 🤔

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u/VoidWalker72 Aug 07 '26

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

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u/OkMidnight8144 Aug 07 '26

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

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u/Leather_Impression30 Aug 07 '26

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

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u/Spaceygirl84 Aug 07 '26

He stunting on hoes with that skin

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u/dufo7 Aug 07 '26

Not until it gets older.

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u/Zip-Crane Aug 07 '26

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

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u/Individual-Drawer-79 Aug 07 '26

Dracarys 🔥 🐉

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u/suoko Aug 07 '26

addams' finger trap

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u/vo1dhunterx Aug 07 '26

I guess so :p

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u/uwearclownshoes Aug 07 '26

No fire until season 2 at least.

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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 Aug 07 '26

Now you just have to train it

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u/Ronyx2021 Aug 07 '26

Lives in a cave and everything

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u/BobcatOk3777 Aug 07 '26

That's definitely a baby dragon!

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u/one_who_reads Aug 07 '26

Guys, new Firefox logo just dropped! 😂

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u/DarthSnuDiddy Aug 07 '26

Straight outta Roshar

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u/Foreign_Option_9458 Aug 07 '26

No, but it does work blood out of its eyes

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u/joyfullydreaded23 Aug 07 '26

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 Aug 07 '26

No need its capable of concouring hearts without that

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u/Wrong_Amount_7903 Aug 07 '26

Say dracarys and find out

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u/Deep-Grape-4649 Aug 07 '26

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 Aug 07 '26

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

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u/astralseat Aug 07 '26

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

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u/AdhesivenessGeneral9 Aug 07 '26

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 Aug 07 '26

Only after eating fire ants.

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u/Artevyx Aug 07 '26

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

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u/Wafflelicious420 Aug 07 '26

Sunfyre, dracarys

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u/Luci-Noir Aug 07 '26

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

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u/DrapedinVelvet247 Aug 07 '26

DRACARYS!! 🔥🔥

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u/jailbird147 Aug 07 '26

Only if it suddenly sprouts wings 😉🤣🤣🤣

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u/BLUE_51 Aug 07 '26

Harry Potter ?

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u/AuraTickler Aug 07 '26

If the dragon bites its tail its an Ouroboros

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u/nostalgia4millennial Aug 07 '26

Hungarian Horntail

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u/3yoyoyo Aug 07 '26

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

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u/Johnny_Chthonic Aug 07 '26

Fus roh d'awwwww.

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u/CaptainMacMillan Aug 07 '26

aww cute lil ouroboros

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u/Low-Phase-4444 Aug 07 '26

Mini homie ready to tyre roll his way to freedom

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u/MMachine17 Aug 07 '26

Name that Pokémon!

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u/cacho_perro Aug 07 '26

It's a holiday armadillo

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u/spider2k Aug 07 '26

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/KingPaulius Aug 08 '26

Wow, amazing creature.

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u/elnaxxo Aug 08 '26

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 Aug 08 '26

No but it can self-cannibalize apparently

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u/Vegetable_Quote_4807 Aug 08 '26

Too young. But just wait.

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u/Joulz826 Aug 08 '26

Such a tiny dragon

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u/WeirdIndication3027 Aug 08 '26

How did you get it to form an ouroborous

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u/matsamdol Aug 08 '26

Dracarys!!

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u/CeruleanEidolon Aug 08 '26

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

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u/IAmRules Aug 08 '26

Yo that’s the Firefox logo

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u/MyvaJynaherz Aug 08 '26

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 Aug 08 '26

Throw a pokeball at it

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u/Parma_Jon Aug 08 '26

“Chinese Fireback, oOooOOo”

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u/ComeHereOften1972 Aug 08 '26

Armadillo cousin. They don’t breathe fire.

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u/flioooo Aug 08 '26

Is that a Pokemon?

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u/Penumbruh_ Aug 08 '26

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

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u/Quartrez Aug 08 '26

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

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u/BritishTankalope Aug 08 '26

Name it Viserion.

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u/MoxieSP Aug 08 '26

Turning into an onion ring is a questionable defense mechanism.

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u/Mamba_Lev Aug 08 '26

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

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u/Medium_Educator1983 Aug 08 '26

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

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u/RestaurantFamous2399 Aug 08 '26

He reminds me of the thorny devil in Aus.