Baby Dragons in Prospect Park? “Not this year.”

Hopeful fans of baby dragons are going to have wait at least another year for the famously fiery newborns, say Prospect Park Alliance officials. The four dragon eggs nested in the eastern corner of the Nethermead are giving no indication that this will finally be the year they hatch.

“If this was going to be the spring that the dragonlings were preparing to hatch, the nest-mounds would already be growing warm,” explained park Mythozoological Acquisitions Vice-Director Nora Bedrosian, “But unfortunately there’s no sign of radiant heat at all. Looks like it’s not this year!”

The four eggs, thought to be of the common green-dragon variety, were placed in the nest-mounds in 1992. While green-dragon eggs commonly require two decades to fully incubate, some have been known to take two to three times longer.

“One of these years, though, ” said Bedrosian, “we’ll be in for a nice surprise!”