Vertebrate- Reptile- Komodo Dragon

The Komodo dragon is a lizard; in fact it is the biggest of all the lizards in the world. They measure up to 3 meters in length and weigh 70 kilo grams. The Komodo dragon is found in only a few countries. (Komodo, Rinca, Flores and Gili Motang in Indonesia. New research believes that the Komodo dragon use to live all across Indonesia and Australia, and then were completely wiped out by the human population. The Komodo dragon is a carnivore, it eats the meat of already dead animals but it has the ability to hunt and kill its own prey which is often birds and some mammals. The Komodo dragon has about 60 very sharp teeth, some of those teeth measure up to 2.5 centimetres. The Komodo dragon uses it’s forked tongue to pick up smells in the air, the can sell things that are up to 9.5 kilometres away.