Komodo Dragon

Komodo Island Monitors are apex predators, they're important because they keep the population of local animals down to a reasonable level. Though it's debatable whether or not Komodo's themselves are overpopulated.

Yes, the komodo dragon is very dangerous. It has a very dangerous, venomous bite.

For years it was believed that the danger of a Komodo dragon's bite was due not to venom, but to bacteria that live on its teeth. Recent research, however, has discovered that the bite of the Komodo dragon delivers a powerful venom which actually thins the blood, increasing blood flow and creating a state of shock in the victim. The sharp, serrated teeth of a komodo dragon are used to open a gaping wound in its prey, enabling the venom to flow easily.

The discovery of venom glands in the Komodo dragon challenges the previous assumption that fatal bites were due to the consumption of carrion (rotting things), and the resultant growth of toxic bacteria in the mouths of the lizards. Infections by these organisms would still be a serious factor in treating a bite wound. Komodo dragons do not usually attack people, preferring other game such as deer. But there are documented cases of them stalking and killing human beings.

Yes, A dinosaur has no protection from a komodos poison it hasn't yet developed immunities to illnesses like we have so it would be helpless. even a t-rex would die after a while even if it killed the komodo first. but that is unlikely as the komodo has excellent reflexes and is able to dodge a huge fat two legged dinosaur.

~Bullyreaper.

healamonsters come from st America /Mexico and are venamous.

Comodo dragons come from Indonesia and arn't venamous

Wow, whoever wrote the original comment is a moron and needs to learn to spell. Komodo Dragon's and Gila Monsters (proper spelling for both) are different in numerous ways, but their toxicity is not an example of such. Komodo Dragon's are infact venomous, the venom glands are (If I'm not mistaken) located in the bottom jaws and are not injected through their teeth or fangs, but through grooves in between the teeth. The venom acts as an anticoagulant and often allows the animal to bleed to death from the bite.

In addition, Monitor's have significantly longer and thinner tails, generally have longer and pointier snouts, long sharp claws for digging, and strong muscular throats. Most species are also significantly larger than Gila Monsters. A Komodo Dragon is a Monitor Lizard, so it possesses these qualities as well as a rather gray or olive coloration as opposed to the Gila Monster's more black appearance.

Hope this helps!

A park was established in 1980 to help protect them with strict anti-poaching and protection laws. The park is named Komodo National Park, now tourism is quickly becoming a major problem for the dragon.

Additional Info: The Komodo Dragon is listed as "vulnerable" by the International Union of Conservation for Nature, or the IUCN Red List with a population trend noted as "updating needed". For more details, please see the sites listed below.

They breathe through there tongue!!

In southeast asia and india, there are no wild horses. Komodo dragons don't eat wild horses.

Hi22209:

the difference is impossible to tell; they're hermapherdites, which means both male and female, and if you're planning on reproducing them, they might actually do self fertilazation, which means to get pregnant by them selves

Chimera55:

actually only certain frog are both. other frogs can change their gender but most frog are one or the other though it is diffucult to tells the difference i learned in school about 3 years ago how to tell the difference i can't remember the distince features.

No. It is a monitor lizard, the largest in the world.

This is not an answerable question.

Most of the Komodo Dragons who have ever lived have died many many years ago.

I think you may want to know how many are extinct or how many are left or some variation on that.

Please re-ask your question but state it differently.

It would be beneficial to search for a weather website instead of asking random joe.

The chances you find a weather forecaster and they are monitoring the weather with a program when they read this question are very high.

Komodo Dragons' eggs are twice as big as a chicken egg, and weigh about 125g.

There is no threat to the cockroach. They would survive a atomic bomb ( the IRS right along with them)

The Komodo dragon has a very dangerous bite, and it is venomous (not poisonous).

For years it was believed that the danger of a Komodo dragon's bite was due not to venom, but to bacteria that live on its teeth. Recent research, however, has discovered that the bite of the Komodo dragon delivers a powerful venom which actually thins the blood, increasing blood flow and creating a state of shock in the victim. The sharp, serrated teeth of a komodo dragon are used to open a gaping wound in its prey, enabling the venom to flow easily.

The discovery of venom glands in the Komodo dragon challenges the previous assumption that fatal bites were due to the consumption of carrion (rotting things), and the resultant growth of toxic bacteria in the mouths of the lizards. Infections by these organisms would still be a serious factor in treating a bite wound. Komodo dragons do not usually attack people, preferring other game such as deer. But there are documented cases of them stalking and killing human beings.

As a lizard the Komodo dragon is not particularly closely related to dinosaurs. Alligators and birds are more closely related to alligators. Because lizards (including komodo dragons) exist on a separate branch from the dinosaurs they are no more closely related to one dinosaur than they are to another.

A komodo dragon is a lizard, most closely related to the monitor lizards.

cheetah wins that race versus komodo dragon.

It depends on who he had for lunch!!

it protects itself by using its unnatural size to scare the enemy or he might bite them or jump on them with its size the mouth of the dragon is very nast and you can catch a diese fromit

green/gray
Adult Komodo dragons are greenish-gray to black in colour. They also have yellow and black spots on its freckled skin. Young juveniles are yellow or green in colour. However these reptiles do undergo a colour change during their life time. It is a sign of maturity and fully grown up adults have a greenish earthen colour. They also have a forked tongue similar to snakes that's yellow in colour. Hope this helps!:-)

It is commonly believed that the Brazilian wandering spider is the most poisonous spider, there have been over 7000 recorded bites. If a person is bitten by this species there is a good chance that death will occur. However, the black widow spider, the brown recluse spider and the tunnel web spider, are also very poisoness. == ==

Previous theories about how Komodo dragons kill their prey have been proven to be false.

For many years, it was believed that Komodo dragons killed their prey by biting them, which would inject bacteria into the wound. The prey would not die immediately, but usually within two days, during which the Komodo dragon would continue to follow it, until it died. After all, according to the National Geographic, the saliva of the Komodo dragon carries between 50 and 80 different types of bacteria. However, scientists were sceptical about this theory, as the short time it took prey to die was inconsistent with the amount of time normally taken for bacteria to cause death.

More recently, scientists have discovered that the bite of the Komodo dragon delivers a powerful venom which thins the blood if its prey, increasing blood flow and creating a state of shock in the victim. The gaping wound caused by the Komodo dragon's sharp teeth enable the venom to flow more easily.

The biggest Komodo dragon was 10 feet and weighed 466pounds.

Komodo dragons live on some of the island of Indonesia. Those islands consist of: Komodo, Flores, Rinca, Motang, Gili, and Padar.