Postojna Postscript: Baby Dragons

Finally, there be dragons. Baby dragons. Which is the working name for a blind cave salamander that is so specialized for the Postojna caves that it doesn’t live more than a few days if removed, even under the most careful conditions.

Like all proper dragons, everything you first hear about them is probably false. They live 100 years (fact: possibly, but better confirmation of 60 year lifespans), eat only once every 10 years (fact: okay, this seems to be true, but only if necessary, not as a lifestyle choice), and breathe fire (I refuse to believe otherwise). They are considered amphibians that are fully aquatic, and to really confuse us, ohms have both lungs and gills. They really aren’t even that cute, but between the good naming and excellent PR, we’re all lining up to buy baby dragon keychains that look hardly at all like penises.*


*Did I go too many posts without mentioning penises? My bad.

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