Komodo dragon conservation efforts prove controversial — and dangerous — in Indonesia Komodo dragon conservation efforts prove controversial in Indonesia mongabay.com August 25, 2008 Efforts ...

Komodo dragons are the world's largest lizards. They can grow up to 3m (10ft) long and have razor-sharp teeth and a poisonous bite. Most of them - around 1,700 - live on Komodo Island, and around ...

Komodo dragons "will eat almost anything, including carrion, deer, pigs, smaller dragons and even large water buffalo and humans," according to National Geographic. In 2013, a guide and a park ...

Komodo dragons are the world's largest lizards. They can grow up to 3m (10ft) long and have razor-sharp teeth and a poisonous bite. Most of them - around 1,700 - live on Komodo Island, and around ...

The Komodo dragon - native to the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores and Gili Motang - is one of the world's most fearsome predators, normally feasting on pigs, deer and snakes.

The Komodo dragon venom consists of a few kinds of toxic proteins, and causes exactly the effect we’ve seen from dragon bites: rapid blood loss, inhibition of clotting, paralysis, and extreme pain.

Brett Westwood on the Komodo dragon - myth, monster and reality. With contributions from Mark Carwardine, Antonia Quirke and Joe Capon of the Attenborough Komodo Dragon House. Show more "For me ...

But one of the Komodo dragons — believed to have been about 2.5m — clearly thought it was dinner time and pounced. Komodo dragons are the world’s largest lizard.

Nestled in Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands, Komodo Island is a true marvel of nature. Known as the home of the world’s ...

The Komodo dragon, the largest species of lizard now alive, can grow to 10 feet long and nearly 200 pounds.A muscular carnivore armed with sharp teeth, Varanus komodoensis dines on prey as large ...