Komodo Island and its nine-foot-long monitor ... is the mouth after all—dragons are venomous. When he scanned a dragon’s head with an MRI device, he found in its gums a series of glands ...

Komodo dragons and King cobras, apex predators of Southeast Asia, evoke fear and respect. Dragons boast immense size and strength, while cobras wield deadly venom. Though encounters are rare, both ...

An avid hunter, the Komodo dragon can hit 12 miles an hour in short ... To encourage the lizard to leave, he flicked back, tapping it on the head with his pencil. Apparently it worked.

Last month a park ranger survived after a Komodo dragon climbed the ladder into his hut and savaged his hand and foot. In 2007 an eight-year-old boy died after being mauled. In June last year ...

This story appears in the November 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Komodo dragon, the largest species of lizard now alive, can grow to 10 feet long and nearly 200 pounds.

This was only discovered in 2006, when a dragon called Flora mothered five baby dragons at Chester Zoo, despite never having been kept with a male. According to Joe Capon of London Zoo ...

the home of a giant lizard known as the Komodo dragon. Show more First transmitted in 1956, the Zoo Quest team sails to Komodo island, the home of a giant lizard known as the Komodo dragon.