- Unlike the other different types of lizards, Komodo dragons maintain a single mate throughout their lifetime
- Komodo can run at about 11 miles an hour
- It is the only lizard that hunts and kills prey larger than its body and bigger than what it can swallow whole
- To avoid being eaten by larger Komodo dragons, youngsters often roll in their own feces so that they give out a foul smell that the adult Komodos avoid
- Komodo dragons can live to be 50 years old
- The Komodo dragon is the world's heaviest lizard, weighing 150 pounds or more
- Although, babies can be born only through mating of a male and a female, there are instances when babies were born from a single Komodo without mating between individuals of different gender
- Though named as dragons, Komodo dragons are lizards. They are the heaviest lizards on Earth that can weigh upto 150 pounds and can grow as long as 3 meters
- These are natives of the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, and Gili Motang. Komodo dragon habitat is characteristically hot and dry. The environment in which they thrive is acknowledged to be one of the toughest in the world
- Komodo dragons have a large, flat head, a rounded snout and a long, muscular tail. They move on four strong but bowed legs
