He authored an insightful book, The Behavioral Ecology of the Komodo Monitor. Auffenberg’s family was surprisingly relaxed about venturing afar to rough it among deadly animals. Packing up ...

Researchers believe there are over 7,000 lizard species. The Komodo dragon, Varanus komodoensis, is part of the monitor family. They can grow as long as ten feet and weigh upwards of 300 pounds ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo is warming up to a new monitor lizard this winter, a young Komodo dragon named Onyx. Reptile keepers have been working with these lizards for decades, including ...

According to Joe Capon of London Zoo, Komodo dragons have been a stable species for 90 million years. They evolved from giant monitor lizards from Australia, but have been isolated so long that ...