We often hear people talking about venomous and poisonous animals, so you’d easily be forgiven for thinking that they mean ...

By sticking a Komodo dragon’s head in an MRI scanner, Bryan Fry found that the dragon has the most structurally complex venom glands of any reptile. The dragon uses its serrated teeth to open ...

The serrated edge of a Komodo dragon's tooth is coated in iron, scientists in London discovered..

Komodo dragons — the world’s largest lizards, which can grow to 10 feet in length — carry deadly bacteria in their saliva, which they use to poison their dinner with a swift bite. But they ...

A Queensland researcher who has travelled the world to milk venom from lizards now hopes to replicate its blood-thinning powers.

Consider the Komodo dragon. A hairless creature with thin lips, beady eyes and the hint of a smirk on its face, it stalks animals many times its size. A dragon attack often ends with the prey ...

For decades, researchers argued that Komodo dragons used septic bacteria to poison their prey—but in recent years, more have come to believe that deadly venom is the key to their success.

“Today is appreciate a dragon day,” the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute noted Monday in a tweet. “so let’s show some love to our Komodo dragon friends!” ...

SAN ANTONIO — Officials at the San Antonio Zoo will have to raise at least $100,000 to rebuild the enclosure damaged by a Monday fire that killed a Komodo dragon and five other reptiles.

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.

The discovery made Fry suspect that Komodo dragons also poison their prey and he has just confirmed that in a whirlwind of a paper, which details the dragon's "sophisticated combined-arsenal killing ...

Iron coated teeth, venom and bacteria: A Komodo dragon's tool box for ripping apart prey Komodo dragons can give us insight into the way their prehistoric ancestors hunted and ate their prey.