Fun Facts About Komodo Dragons
The Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) is the world’s largest living lizard, native to a small group of Indonesian islands. Renowned as apex predators, adult Komodo dragons can consume up to 80% of their body weight in under 30 minutes, aided by flexible, decouplable lower jaws, an expandable stomach, and an airway opening beneath the tongue that permits breathing while swallowing large prey whole. These reptiles track prey and carrion up to six miles away using a sensitive, forked yellow tongue that delivers scent particles directly to the Jacobson’s organ in the roof of the mouth. Beneath…
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