The passing of a dragon should not be ignored, especially if the creature lived among us ... a Komodo dragon, and was named Murphy, according to an announcement made Wednesday by the zoo.

after being bitten by one on the zoo’s Komodo dragons earlier this month, according to a news release from the Akron Zoo. The incident happened on March 3 in the Komodo Kingdom. A second Komodo ...

OSHA did not identify any deficiencies in the information provided by the Akron Zoo. "In this incident, two male Komodo Dragons unintentionally entered the same cage and attacked each other.

Komodo dragon Murphy explores his outdoor habitat at the Reptile Discovery Center. Connor Mallon, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.

On Wednesday, National Zoo officials announced another death, this time for 26-year-old Komodo dragon male Murphy. Like Gunther, Murphy also outlasted the median life expectancy for his species in ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo is warming up to a new monitor lizard this winter, a young Komodo dragon named Onyx. Reptile keepers have been working with these lizards for decades, including ...

That was the first confirmation of parthenogenesis in captive Komodo dragons; scientists now believe it “happens very often,” says Gerardo Garcia, Chester Zoo’s curator of lower vertebrates ...

Having a fresher sample from a zoo-kept animal was interesting ... having a very different diet to wild Komodo dragons, he ...

They’ll likely be empty, but if you’re lucky, you’ll draw near, and there it will be: the world’s biggest lizard, a grim-faced giant known as the Komodo dragon. The man who devised this ...

First transmitted in 1956, the Zoo Quest team sail to Komodo island, the home of a giant lizard known as the Komodo dragon. Show more First transmitted in 1956, the Zoo Quest team sails to Komodo ...

As well as eating birds, pigs, deer and buffalo, dragons eat other dragons, particularly newborn babies. Luckily, infant dragons are very agile, and quickly learn to escape the hungry adults by ...