The large lizard that was lost was a Komodo dragon, and was named Murphy, according to an announcement made Wednesday by the zoo. He pleased visitors at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in ...

Komodo dragon Murphy explores his outdoor habitat at the Reptile Discovery Center. Connor Mallon, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.

after being bitten by one on the zoo’s Komodo dragons earlier this month, according to a news release from the Akron Zoo. The incident happened on March 3 in the Komodo Kingdom. A second Komodo ...

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 ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo is warming up to a new monitor lizard this winter, a young Komodo dragon named Onyx. Reptile keepers have been working with these lizards for decades, including ...

OSHA did not identify any deficiencies in the information provided by the Akron Zoo. "In this incident, two male Komodo Dragons unintentionally entered the same cage and attacked each other.

An Indonesian fisherman has been killed by Komodo dragons after he was attacked while trespassing on a remote island in search of fruit, officials said Tuesday. Muhamad Anwar, 32, bled to death on his ...

Zoo Quest Zoo Quest for a Dragon, Dragons of Komodo Zoo Quest for a Dragon (1956) Glimpse inside David Attenborough's early BBC career. These photographs and documents capture the beginnings of ...

That was the first confirmation of parthenogenesis in captive Komodo dragons; scientists now believe it “happens very often,” says Gerardo Garcia, Chester Zoo’s curator of lower vertebrates ...

A more extreme approach, if numbers were to plummet, would be to ship in zoo animals to bolster the gene pool. In Indonesia Komodo dragons have been breeding in captivity since 1965. In 1992 the ...

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