the home of a giant lizard known as the Komodo dragon. The first and last known sighting of these animals by a European was in 1912. Once on shore, Attenborough soon comes face to face with the ...

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 ...

The Komodo dragon's diet is as ferocious as the lizard ... Despite their ancient lineage and impressive survival skills, Komodo dragons face threats in the modern world. Habitat loss, climate ...

This story appears in the November 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Komodo dragon, the largest species of lizard now alive, can grow to 10 feet long and nearly 200 pounds.

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

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 ...

The large lizard that was lost was a Komodo dragon, and was named Murphy, according to an announcement made Wednesday by the zoo. He pleased visitors at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in ...