As well as eating birds, pigs, deer and buffalo, dragons eat other dragons, particularly newborn babies. Luckily, infant dragons are very agile, and quickly learn to escape the hungry adults by ...

First transmitted in 1956, the Zoo Quest team sail to Komodo island, the home of a giant lizard known as the Komodo dragon. Show more First transmitted in 1956, the Zoo Quest team sails to Komodo ...

Here’s what it takes to catch a dragon. Slaughter a goat. Cut it up. Enlist a few strong friends to hoist three ten-foot-long steel traps, grab bags of goat meat, and trek a few miles up and ...

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.

The Indonesian island of Komodo, home to the Komodo dragon, will not be closed to tourists next year - but a $1,000 membership scheme will be introduced, the authorities have said. It reverses a ...

Revealing active behaviour that adds to our understanding of the nature of a species. Tom Way (UK) watches the clash of two Komodo dragons through clouds of golden sand. Tom’s intention, as his dinghy ...

There are fewer than 3,500 Komodo dragons left in the wild, according to conversationists Indonesian tourism workers have gone on strike over a dramatic hike in the price of tickets to see Komodo ...