A female mountain dragon returns to her den: a cave melted from dense glacial ice. The warm cave and the dragon's cold-adaptive physiology help keeps it from freezing to death.
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Dragons: How Dragons Survive the Cold
A female mountain dragon returns to her den: a cave melted from dense glacial ice. The warm cave and the dragon's cold-adaptive physiology help keeps it from freezing to death.
Added: Apr 30, 2009
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