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

Compared to human teeth, Komodo dragon enamel is incredibly thin, says LeBlanc. Along the serrations the enamel is only 20 micrometers thick – about a quarter of the thickness of a human hair.

As formidable as the Komodo dragon seems, it’s very much at risk. On seven Indonesian islands that are the only places the species lives in the wild, humans burn its habitat to clear land and ...

And surely the first humans who saw the animals would have added: Beware! An avid hunter, the Komodo dragon can hit 12 miles an hour in short bursts. The reptiles ambush their prey, ripping open ...

There are fewer than 3,500 Komodo dragons left in the wild ... numbers and protect the endangered lizards from overexposure to humans. But local workers say it will scare off tourists completely ...