Komodo Dragon Next To A Human. A female Komodo dragon was sprawled next to a tree, her black obsidian eyes unreadable. This man is lucky to be alive.
The Komodo dragon, Varanus komodoensis, is the largest lizard endemic to five islands in southeast Indonesia. It's actually a real animal, the biggest lizard in the world. Both Komodo and Rinca belong to a National Park system designed to protect and preserve the endangered Komodo Dragon.
His teeth have special indentations that traps small chunks of food.
The Komodo dragon's encounter with the scuba divers has made them quite famous.
Komodo dragons are the largest, heaviest lizards in the world and one of the few with a venomous bite. It used to be believed that these lizards had various strains of bacteria in their saliva that killed prey, but this theory was discredited by the University of Queensland and it is now believed that. It's not that common that Komodos will eat humans.