Komodo dragons are often thought of as solitary hunters, but their social behaviors can be surprisingly complex. When feeding on a carcass, these reptiles establish a clear hierarchy. Male Komodo ...

A full-grown male Timor deer can easily outweigh a Komodo Dragon, but this doesn’t mean the dragon won’t try to make a meal out of it. If the deer happens to be small enough, the Komodo may ...

Staff at Smithsonian’s National Zoo in the District are mourning the death of a male gray seal, Gunther, at the age of 33, ...

How does it work? In humans, males have both male and female sex chromosomes. In Komodo dragons, females do—so Flora had within her the genetic materials needed for embryos to develop.

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo announces the death of Murphy, the Komodo dragon who was a crowd-pleaser for nearly 25 years.

Male Komodo dragons typically live to be about 20 years old in human care. That means Murphy is elderly in Komodo dragon years and requires some special care for conditions that are a natural part ...

Reptile Discovery Center staff at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute’s (NZCBI) campus in Washington, D.C., are mourning the loss of Murphy, a 26-year-old male Komodo ...

Komodo dragons were all alone ... Their efforts have told them a lot about numbers, male-female ratios, survival rates, and breeding success—and how inbred the populations are.

2. They are capable of ‘virgin birth’ Komodo dragons are one of the only animals able to reproduce without male fertilisation. This is due to a process of asexual reproduction known as ...

"In this incident, two male Komodo Dragons unintentionally entered the same cage and attacked each other. The injured employee instinctively tried to intervene and was injured by the larger male ...

Two endangered Komodo dragons have been born at a zoo ... this moment after we successfully introduced female dragon Mezcal with male Satali and they seemed to hit it off straight away.