When it comes to teeth, the komodo is like no other lizard! Other lizards have simple peg- like teeth, but because of its gruesome diet, there is something deadly about the komodos’ monster bite! To start with, the Komodo dragon’s saliva is teeming with bacteria (it has 50 strains of virulent bacteria), making a single bite lethal. Using this unique feature, the komodo will ambush the prey, and then make the lethal bite. Afterwards, it only needs to wait for the poison to take effect! What the komodo lacks in speed, it makes up for in smell. The komodo is able to detect the aroma of meat over 2 miles away, and can easily track the prey that is dieing from the lethal bite. Once the feeding frenzy begins, and the dragons start to eat, we begin to notice another peculiar thing about these lizards’ teeth. Their teeth are designed to saw off huge chunks of flesh. It’s more like a shark’s mouth than a lizard’s; the teeth have razor sharp serrated cutting edges just like that of a circular saw. The jaw is full of these saw like teeth (up to 60 teeth), which allow the animal to tear apart an animal in no time. Moreover, if one or more of these teeth break off during feeding, it will just grow back. In the meantime, just like a shark, the dragon has rows of teeth in waiting, packed into the jaw. This means that as soon as one tooth falls off, it will be replaced. Indeed, the komodo is one of nature’s most powerful predators. Yet as fearsome as these predators are, they are no match for nature’s most potent predator: Man. Only a few thousand of these creatures remain in the wild, as a result of poaching, loss of prey, and loss of habitat. Those that do remain are a reminder of nature’s brutal power! A power that has evolved over one hundred million years! The Komodo dragon has survived all of these years on savage skill alone, proving that the dragons bite is far worse than its bark!

Well here is where the terror of this creature really lies. Komodo dragons are of course carnivorous, but little know that they are also cannibalistic. They typically eat large prey such as deer, wild boar, goat; they will basically eat anything they can overpower and this includes smaller lizards (including other Komodo Dragons). As is evident, the Komodo Dragon has a wide range possibility of prey. Evidence from droppings however, show that a few types of prey serve as the main food choice of these lizards. From the droppings, humans are able to observe that the deer is the meal of choice. Boars are also a popular choice. Dragons acquire these animals by two ways: hunting, and finding carcasses.

Mysterious: A tale of the dragons

What may sound shocking is true, there is relatively little known about these dragons. Now, while it may be easy to believe that there are countless of unknown species of beetles in the world, it is relatively difficult to believe that an animal so large as the Komodo Dragon went undetected.

Six Senses of a Komodo Dragon

Touch : dragons come covered in body amour. These bumps are called scales. With a skin made of these scales, it is difficult to feel anything. This is why dragons have special spots that are sensitive to touch. These spots are connected directly to nerves. These plagues are on every scale. The scales around the ears, the lips, chin, and the bottom of the feet have at least 3 or more plaques.

Young Dragons

From the moment a Komodo Dragon is born, it is left to fend for itself. At this time, the dragon is only about 8 to 22 inches long. The young dragons look very different from adult dragons and that is not just because of their size. The four ounce dragon pup is brightly colored. It is a greenish black and white with yellow specks. It also has small reddish circles around its body and alternating dark and light bands round its tail. These designs help to conceal the dragon in the shade of the trees, where it will hide for its first year or two of life.

When Komodo Dragons attack!