Daily Archives: May 23rd, 2009

Are Komodo dragons venomous?

May 23, 2009 – 11:23 pm

by Greg Mayer
Komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis) are the world’s largest living lizards, reaching 10 feet in length, and are restricted to the islands of Komodo, Rintja, Padar, and Flores in Indonesia. In a soon to be published paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (abstract), Brian Fry of the University of Melbourne [...]

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