News tagged with varanus komodoensis

Rediscovering the dragon's paradise lost

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 ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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

Komodo even more deadly than thought: Research

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 ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 4




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Ancient dragon has space-age skull

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


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