“Only after visiting museum collections and looking at all of the teeth along the skulls of many Komodo dragon specimens was I convinced that I was looking at a novel adaptation in these iconic ...

2. They are capable of ‘virgin birth’ Komodo dragons are one of the only animals able to reproduce without male fertilisation. This is due to a process of asexual reproduction known as ...

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.

Komodo encounter. There are only about 2000 ... from a cliff face beside carved wooden effigies of the deceased. Human skulls lie exposed on shelves or inside caves in a third.