An avid hunter, the Komodo dragon can hit 12 miles an hour in short bursts. The reptiles ambush their prey, ripping open the softest ... tape its mouth closed (for our protection), and gently ...

Previously off the beaten path, Komodo island is now one ... Fry has discovered the secret is the mouth after all—dragons are venomous. When he scanned a dragon’s head with an MRI device ...

The Komodo dragon bites into its victim's flesh, and although the prey sometimes breaks away, very often it eventually succumbs to an infection from bacteria in its mouth, dying in a few days.

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 ...