News tagged with varanus komodoensis

Rediscovering the dragon's paradise lost

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Sep 30, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 2

The world's largest living lizard species, the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), is vulnerable to extinction and yet little is known about its natural history. New research by a team of palaeontologists and ar ...

Komodo even more deadly than thought: Research

Biology / Plants & Animals

May 18, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (20) | 4

The carnivorous reptiles (Varanus komodoensis) are known to bite prey and release them, leaving them to bleed to death from their wounds: the victims are reported to go into shock before the dragons kill a ...

Ancient dragon has space-age skull

Biology /

Apr 14, 2008 | 4.2 / 5 (33) | 1

The fearsome Komodo dragon is the world's largest living lizard and can take very large animal prey: now a new international study has revealed how it can be such an efficient killing machine despite having ...

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