In addition to being Earth’s largest living lizard, behavior like human-eating and grave-robbing are the Komodo dragon’s ...

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 ...

they touch their tongue to the roof of their mouth, where the Jacobson’s organ analyzes the scent molecules. If the scent of a meal is stronger on one side of the tongue, the Komodo dragon knows ...

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 ...