The Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodoensis) is the world's largest living lizard. The Komodo dragon measures almost three metres in length and weighs well over 70 kilograms. It lives in the Indonesianarchipelago where it feeds primarily on deer and wild boar, but also eating other Komodos and the occasional human. The Komodo dragon is capable of taking prey up to 15 times its size, unhinging its jaws to swallow food larger than its head, and downing as much as 80 percent of its weight in a single meal. Research Komodo Dragon
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