“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 ...

The Komodo dragon, the largest species of lizard now alive, can grow to 10 feet long and nearly 200 pounds. A muscular carnivore armed with sharp teeth, Varanus komodoensis dines on prey as large ...

It would have been so easy for the Komodo dragon to go unnoticed had it not ... beside carved wooden effigies of the deceased. Human skulls lie exposed on shelves or inside caves in a third.