Like something out of Game of Thrones, a female olm lizard in Slovenia is about to give birth, and people are getting rather excited about the arrival of a new litter of ‘baby dragons’. Calling this the birth of ‘baby dragons’ is not 100pc accurate, obviously, but it is a fair comparison for the olm lizard, which is one of those real almost-mythical creatures that breeds only once every decade or so. This is an amazing achievement considering that olm eggs have rather poor rates of survivability, with them needing to survive for 120 days in order to mature properly. The team of Slovenian biologists are so protective of the olm and her eggs, in fact, that no visitors are allowed anywhere near the aquarium tank. Speaking of the rarity and importance of the likely birth, biologist Saso Weldt said: “This is something truly extraordinary.