They’ll likely be empty, but if you’re lucky, you’ll draw near, and there it will be: the world’s biggest lizard, a grim-faced giant known as the Komodo dragon. The man who devised this ...

Komodo dragons, the world’s largest species of ... “I saw it many times before I actually believed it,” he said. “The first ...

After attacking, Komodo dragons will retreat to bide their time until their prey slowly and ... heard rumours of an unusually large ‘land crocodile’. He set out to investigate and came back ...

Previously off the beaten path, Komodo ... dragons are effective when they strike smaller prey, such as deer and pigs. Tim Jessop, a University of Melbourne ecologist, who has spent more time ...

As formidable as the Komodo dragon seems, it’s very much at risk. On seven Indonesian islands that are the only places the species lives in the wild, humans burn its habitat to clear land and ...