Since the first Komodo Island, Islands in the Flores, Indonesia, the story has appeared on a giant dragon. Many seamen story  that the dragon is more like a frightening monster.

Tails that can throw a big buffalo with only one switch. Jaw big and strong, able to swallow a pig in a forest movement. From the mouth, and always give out the fire.

This story was circulating area and attract many people. However never dare to approach the island to prove. Until finally in 1910-an early, appearing in a report from the group’s fleet of combat ships in the Netherlands that quarters Flores about the mysterious creature allegedly “dragon” inhabit a small island in the Lesser Sunda Islands (now in the Flores Island, Nusa Tenggara).

The Dutch sailor military gives a report that the possibility is being sized up to seven meters long, with a body and a giant mouth that always give out the fire. Lieutenant Steyn van Hensbroek, an official Dutch Colonial Administration in the area Flores heard this report and the stories cover the island of Komodo. He is also planning a trip to Komodo Island.

He took him to headquarters and made measurements of the length of the long   its prey is about 2.1 meters. Lizard shape is very similar. Then photogenic animals (documented) by Peter A Ouwens, Director of the Zoological Museum and Botanical Gardens Bogor, Java. This is the first documentation of Komodo.

Base on the catch of the hunter, the Ouwens research and ended that the Komodo dragon sparer not fire, but including the type of monitor lizard (monitor lizard) in the class reptilian.

Research results are then published in the newspaper, publication 1912. In telling it, Ouwens give advice on the name of the giant lizard Varanus komodoensis as a nickname Komodo Dragon.

Komodo realize the importance of rare animals, the Government of the Netherlands issued a regulation on the protection and Komodo dragons on Komodo Island in 1915. Be the conservation area as the Komodo.

Findings as the Komodo dragon living legend, fishing curiosity international world. Several scientific expeditions from different countries take, turns in doing research on the island of Komodo.

After World Wars I, a scientific expedition designed to conduct research Komodo. At 1926, the expedition led by W Douglas Burden from the American Museum of Natural History with research most modern, doing research for months.

Expedition involving tens of people that catch the tail Komodo 27. They perform surgical anatomy and identification of species. From where the first scientific reports about Komodo made.

Komodo has been described that have a large head and strong, has a pair of shining eyes, the skin hard, thick and wiry. Have wrinkled skin under his neck.

Lizard  with similar shapes, with four legs and a big fat tail that is also big fat long. Has 26 sharp teeth, each measuring 4 cm, have a fork tongue, bright red. If viewed from a distance, the tongue is a fire  similar, because the crane Komodo often spoken like snakes.

Exactly 18 days ago, on the experts at the zoo Zoology Chester Zoo, Manchester, England, ended. A natural phenomenon that surprising world of knowledge about animals. A female Komodo dragons are still virgin, lay eggs and hatch successfully five of them.

DNA tests provide evidence that accurate Flora truly successful birth to her son without assistance male.

Based on scientific knowledge, while growing up, baby-baby Komodo dragons can reach the size of 10 feet long (3 meters) and has a weight about 300 pounds (135 kilograms). If you reach the size of this extraordinary, they will be able to partake flatly a pig or deer.

According to the data, around 70 species of reptiles including snakes and the lizard is able to reproduce the asexual (without sex related) in a process known scientifically as parthenogenesis. However, the draft virginity (Virginias Flora and another Komodo dragon in April at London Zoo is the first time documented.

Giant lizard-lizard including the nearly extinct animal with a population of wild nature in less than 4000 head. To protect the Komodo, in 1980 agreed to establish conservation areas in the Komodo National Park on Komodo Island and small islands around it.

And a population of Komodo dragons in the last three decades is the decline and threatened the existence, especially as a result of hunting deer, as the main prey. Even the population on the island of Padar has been missing since the late 1990s, when, in the early 1980s, the Komodo dragons can be found in there. Attention and conservation efforts should be given this species in particular, because population extinction Komodo.

Komodo need five years to grow to the size of two meters and can hold up to 30 years of life. Entering the 4-5 year period is the beginning of sexual maturity in Komodo.