Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-4659579-20130915082315/@comment-81.157.51.128-20140308162449

So the complaint is this: female Argonians should not have breasts because they're reptiles. Well, what about the fact that Argonians, male and female, have gills? Reptiles no more have gills than they have breasts. Since they are a fictional race, I don't think they can be assigned a class based on the biology of real animals - they combine the features of reptiles, mammals, and amphibians.

As to reproduction, their young are referred to as 'hatchlings', yet it's stated that the species is ovoviviparous. This means the eggs are retained inside the mother, with no shell, until they're fully developed, when the young are born alive. So why are they called hatchlings when they are born, not hatched?

Incidentally, there are many real lizards (and snakes) that give birth to live young in this manner. Not all reptiles lay eggs. The platypus is oviparous - it lays shelled eggs which then hatch outside the body. The only birds which produce crop milk are pigeons - this is a secretion produced in the animal's crop, fed to the young from the mouth. Penguins feed their young on regurgitated fish, not crop milk.