Ever wonder what inspired King Kong? Despite its gorilla-like appearance, inspiration for the fictional beast came from ...

Komodo dragons are incredible animals. They're lizards, but they have a number of unique tweaks to their chemistry that gives them advantages often only seen in mammals. To figure out how these large ...

For the first time in the Bronx Zoo's 122-year history, six Komodo dragons were successfully bred and hatched. An official with the Bronx Zoo told Newsweek that the breeding process began in 2014 when ...

Nicolas Cage talks his new movie ‘Pig’, reveals his favorite fast food and why he’s amazed by Komodo dragons. The famed Indonesian island, home to the rare Komodo dragon, will be closed in 2020 after ...

Visitors to the Saint Louis Zoo’s Charles H. Hoessle Herpetarium over the past few weeks will have noticed a long black curtain covering one wall of the building’s main atrium. It’s there to protect ...

Komodo dragon teeth are ironclad. Literally. The serrated edges and tips of the reptiles’ razor-sharp chompers are lined with a layer of iron, researchers report July 24 in Nature Ecology & Evolution.