Komodo National Park, located between Sumbawa and Flores in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province, is one of the world's ...

Wild Komodo dragons on Komodo Island tend to grow larger than those on neighboring islands like Rinca or Flores. These differences might be linked to environmental factors, prey availability or ...

Most of them - around 1,700 - live on Komodo Island, and around 1,000 more live on Rinca, another island in the national park. The national park as a whole is a Unesco World Heritage site.

Komodo dragons are one of the most unique and ancient species in the world found mostly in Indonesia. The Komodo National ...

Getty Images Komodo dragons are the world's largest lizards But around the same time they also unveiled plans for a mass tourist development on neighbouring Rinca Island, which is home to the ...

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 ...

As well as Komodo, they are found on Rinca, Padar and Flores, where the lizard colouring is lighter. Their existence was only confirmed in 1910 when a Dutch colonial administrator, Lieutenant ...

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.

They are the world’s largest lizards. Canon EOS−1D X 100−400mm f4.5−5.6 lens at 100mm 1/2000 sec at f7.1 Komodo National Park, Rinca island, Indonesia.

Komodo National Park is now closer than ever with Jetstar Asia’s direct flights from Singapore to Labuan Bajo, cutting travel ...

Known by different names such as the frilled agama, the frill-neck lizard, the frill-necked lizard, and the frilled dragon, this species of lizard is often equated to a modern representation of ...