“We want to use this similarity to learn more about how carnivorous dinosaurs might have eaten and if they used iron in their teeth the same way as the Komodo dragon.” He added that current ...

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 ...

Komodo dragons were all alone.” So Ciofi expanded his research. He sought to understand every aspect of a dragon’s life ... and its dinosaur ancestor lived 200 million years ago.

Jurassic Park may have been a work of complete fantasy, but the first sight of Komodo National Park islands blurred the lines between fiction and reality. Sure, it was CGI dinosaurs in the ...

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.

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.