Komodo Dragon

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Las Vegas has plenty to offer kids  -  16 Nov 2008
New York Daily News,The featured attraction on our recent visit was a Komodo dragon, the world's largest lizard. Other highlights included jellyfish, piranhas, a "touch tank"

Skinny venti Komodo Dragon no match for plain cup of joe  -  Nov 10, 2008
New Orleans CityBusiness,Or I could get a venti Komodo Dragon with 10 Sweet’N Lows, soymilk and whip. Those are quite possibly the strangest sentences I have ever written,

London Zoo's Komodo Dragon Hits The Big Ten Oh  -  Oct 22, 2008
Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News,By Lynsey Ford London, UK - What do you give a Komodo dragon who’s celebrating a landmark 10th birthday? Well you give him a manicure of course!

Why not take a dragon to work?  -  Oct 23, 2008
Examiner.com...creatures and do not actually exist in real life (I know what you are thinking but the Komodo Dragon is actually just a large lizard, nice try).

Corrections and clarifications  -  Oct 21, 2008
guardian.co.uk,A reference to a "Kodomodo dragon" in a photo caption should have been to a Komodo dragon (Year of the dragon, page 18, October 18).

NICHOLA McAULIFFE: When Charles saw me doing the splits, he asked ...  -  Nov 15, 2008
Daily Mail,I suppose it was rather like having a komodo dragon on the sofa. At one point he took the dogs out for a walk and Mrs Parker-Bowles, as she then was,

New water park opening in Pennsylvania  -  Oct 23, 2008
The Canadian Press,...a wave pool, a three-story tree house with squirting water toys and dumping buckets, and the Komodo Dragon, Pennsylvania's first indoor FlowRider,

Expeditions with an edge. Orion’s Voyages of Discovery  -  Nov 13, 2008
e-Travel Blackboard (press release),Fancy eyeballing a 70 kilo, 3 metre, Komodo dragon? How about crawling through the infamous Cu Chi tunnels in Vietnam, or commuting by elephant to witness

Lake Toba, Komodo, Krakatau Isles Nominated For New7wonders Of Nature  -  Oct 22, 2008
Bernama,...for a total area of 1817 square kilometers (603 square kilometers of it land). The national park was founded in 1980 to protect the Komodo dragon.

Darwin at the Natural History Museum: the original of the species  -  Nov 11, 2008
Times Online,...human hand and arm, the wing of a fruit bat and the foot of a Komodo dragon: all showing their staggering similarities, their incontrovertible kinship.

Indoor water park to open in Poconos  -  Oct 25, 2008
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,...a wave pool, a three-story tree house with squirting water toys and dumping buckets, and the Komodo Dragon, Pennsylvania's first indoor FlowRider,

Clint Eastwood As a Changeling  -  Nov 12, 2008
Huffington Post,An avowed Republican in Hollywood is nearly as rare as the giant Komodo Dragon -- and with the spiteful bite of one as well. But with Barack Obama's victory

Out & About  -  Nov 13, 2008
Press-Enterprise,LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY WORLD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, world's largest Komodo dragon and alligator snapping turtle, one of the world's largest and oldest

The search for the Buru and the Sacred Brass Plates  -  Oct 27, 2008
Lancaster Eagle Gazette,The native name for the Komodo dragon is Land Crocodile. Cryptozoologists, Bernard Heuvelman and Roy Mackal, regard the Buru to be a large Komodo

If you're sick, stay home and don't infect the rest of us  -  Oct 30, 2008
Newsdurhamregion.com,I'd sooner kiss a Komodo dragon. And what else should we expect? We take them out of the fresh air and suddenly coop them up inside a sealed school for six

"It is - still - the best zoological blog out there, period"  -  Nov 10, 2008
ScienceBlogsJuravenator looks just like a baby Komodo dragon [the fossil is shown below]. While originally inferred to be scaly-skinned due to the discovery of scaly,

Entertainment knows no bounds  -  Oct 26, 2008
Honolulu Star-Bulletin,Occupying the aquarium's 90560 square feet are 14 saltwater and freshwater exhibits, the newest of which is home to a rare Komodo dragon.

Out & About  -  Oct 23, 2008
Press-Enterprise,LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY WORLD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, world's largest Komodo dragon and alligator snapping turtle, one of the world's largest and oldest

Komodo dragon leaving Chicago's Shedd Aquarium  -  Aug 30, 2008
Houston Chronicle,AP Texas News © 2008 AP The popular lizard has been on loan from the Fort Worth Zoo to the Shedd Aquarium since April 2006. His original 11-month stay was

Komodo dragon disappearing from natural habitat  -  Sep 4, 2008
Independent,By Kathy Marks, Asia-Pacific Correspondent The legendary Komodo dragon, a giant carnivorous lizard that feasts on water buffalo, and occasionally even

Sedgwick County Zoo Releases Video of Baby Komodo Dragon  -  Sep 10, 2008
KWCH,By John Boyd (WICHITA, Kan.) The Sedgwick County Zoo has released video of one of two Komodo Dragons that were hatched at the zoo earlier this year.

Call of the wild  -  Aug 30, 2008
Baltimore Sun,Take the Komodo dragon, a 10-foot reptile with powerful jaws and razor-sharp teeth found only on a couple of tiny islands in the Indonesian archipelago.

Paving somehow survived The Dark Years  -  Sep 9, 2008
Victoria Star,This insult came about because I had made a few innocent comments about his lifestyle, girth, mental capacity, and breath (which would knock a Komodo Dragon

Government Shutdown: Fear Not  -  Sep 3, 2008
FederalNewsRadio.comIndonesian children who misbehave are told the Komodo Dragon is in the next room. In PC/DC, the boogeyman is the dreaded Government Shutdown.

Have talent, will travel  -  Sep 15, 2008
San Diego Union Tribune,Its attraction for him was rooted in a childhood fascination with the Komodo dragon. But the work he ultimately made was a tribute to the rangers who take

Animal sanctuaries: Where the wild things are  -  Sep 12, 2008
MSNBCWhile related to monitor lizards, the Komodo dragon reaches its huge size because it has no natural enemies in its isolated range.

Are Bi-Pedal Reptiles, Giant Monitors Still Alive Today?  -  Sep 20, 2008
NewsBlaze,Habitat here is known to support a myriad of reptile species including some of the world`s largest such as the Komodo dragon, reticulated python,

Exclusive: Sir David Attenborough: My life on earth  -  Sep 11, 2008
Mirror.co.uk,We went to Indonesia in 1957 to find the Komodo dragon, which had never been filmed. Today you can get to Komodo overnight, but it took us three months.

Badlands National Park teems with nice surprises  -  Sep 20, 2008
Kansas City Star,Mososaurs — like a Komodo dragon but maybe 25 feet long — left their bones here 68 million to 75 million years ago. So did the titanothere,

Out & About  -  Sep 25, 2008
Press-Enterprise,LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY WORLD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, world's largest Komodo dragon and alligator snapping turtle, one of the world's largest and oldest

Good reads offer the fascinating and the practical  -  Sep 13, 2008
Daily Gleaner,Did you know, for instance, that a female komodo dragon doesn't need a male to reproduce? That an elephant's trunk is powerful enough to kill a lion with a

Sleep Over Party at the Zoo  -  Sep 11, 2008
SmithsonianNote to the squeamish: zookeepers feed dead rats to the Komodo dragon and American alligator. It culminates with an eery flashlight tour of the grounds,

The Birmingham Zoo  -  Sep 5, 2008
TheBama,...and Black-Footed Penguins, added permanent exhibits of a Komodo Dragon and interactive lorikeet aviary and regained accreditation with the Association

Crispin Glover Intros Oddball 'What is It?' -- Eccentric Actor ...  -  Aug 29, 2008
RedOrbit,...bears about as much resemblance to the typical Sundance-validated "indie" film as a Komodo dragon does to that cute insurance-company gecko.

Witness Sees The Montauk Monster  -  Aug 29, 2008
UFODigest,...the okapi (a short-necked type of giraffe) in 1901, the giant monitor lizard, or the Komodo Dragon in 1912, the bonobo (the Pygmy Chimpanzee) in 1929,

No whining from Pullman about 'Bottle Shock'  -  Aug 29, 2008
Times,Faust the Komodo dragon, star of the Shedd's lizards exhibit, ends his reptilian reign Tuesday and will slither home to the Fort Worth Zoo.

Out & About  -  Sep 11, 2008
Press-Enterprise,LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY WORLD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, world's largest Komodo dragon and alligator snapping turtle, one of the world's largest and oldest

Oyt & About  -  Aug 28, 2008
Press-Enterprise,LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY WORLD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, world's largest Komodo dragon and alligator snapping turtle, one of the world's largest and oldest

Vanishing Dragons  -  14 Aug 2008
Sin Chew Jit Poh,The Komodo dragon, or varanus komodoensis, the largest of all known lizards, now only survives in the wild on the western side of Flores Island,

Wild Neighbors: Tools of the Trade: A Brief History of Fangs  -  14 Aug 2008
Berkeley Daily Planet,...biologist Brian Fry demonstrating that many lizard species, from the cuddly bearded dragon to the not-at-all cuddly Komodo dragon, were venomous.

Diary: Dave Dyment  -  Aug 11, 2008
National Post,Today I watched a deer being devoured by a komodo dragon. On YouTube. It's cold outside, and raining, so I stayed in and watched TV.

Bargain room rates return to Vegas  -  Jul 18, 2008
Dallas Morning News,Question: Has the promised Komodo dragon taken residence at Shark Reef? Answer: The adult Komodo dragon is there, all 7 feet and 87 pounds of him.

No escaping beef crisps  -  Aug 11, 2008
National Post,...a good indication of the hospitality to come. I pour myself a glass and fall asleep happy. - Tomorrow, watching a deer get devoured by a komodo dragon.

One Man’s Trash  -  Jul 31, 2008
Centralia Chronicle,He pointed toward one of his pieces called “Komodo Dragon,�? a lizard-shaped driftwood piece festooned with brightly colored ropes.

Starbucks Steps Up  -  Aug 12, 2008
Well Fed NetworkI knew Starbucks’ Café Estima Blend is Fair Trade Certified, but none of the three others (Gold Coast Blend, Komodo Dragon Blend, and Kenya) I checked were.

New sights but the same old faces  -  Aug 5, 2008
The Age,..."Two days later we are in the main street of Labuan Bajo, the port where you access Komodo dragon visits. Jack is waiting by the car while I am checking out

Dishy picks  -  Aug 1, 2008
Dispatch Online,Travel Channel, 7.30pm: Roar Of The Wild – Lin introduces us to the nearly extinct, man-eating Komodo dragon. This fabled three-metre beast, the Lizard King

Pet projects gone awry  -  Jul 17, 2008
Malaysia Star,RFPs (Request For Pet) that did not take into account this very important fact – among them, a baby tiger and a Komodo dragon – were summarily rejected.

Distribution Of Creatures Great And Small Can Be Predicted ...  -  Jul 17, 2008
Science Daily (press release)For instance, most species are small, but the largest members of a taxonomic group -- such as the great white shark, the Komodo dragon, or the African

New iPhone App One Penny Under $1000  -  Aug 6, 2008
Appscout,Sure you get the thing dipped in gold, or pick up one of those cool new komodo dragon cases (okay, so I made that one up, but let's face it,

Do Mythic Creatures Exist? Show Me the Body  -  Aug 4, 2008
Scientific American...of the giraffe) in 1901, the Komodo dragon in 1912, the bonobo (or pygmy chimpanzee) in 1929, the megamouth shark in 1976 and the giant gecko in 1984.

Dstv highlights - Thursday 24 July 2008  -  Jul 24, 2008
Tonight,A young boy in an Indonesian village come to a tragic end when faced with a Komodo dragon and a group of eco-tourists in South Africa is terrorised by

Birmingham Zoo adds an eco-friendly train, African elephants and a ...  -  Aug 3, 2008
Tuscaloosa News (subscription),In recent years, the zoo has hosted traveling exhibits of bats, koalas and black-footed penguins, and new exhibits include a Komodo dragon, the seasonal

American Idle  -  Jul 30, 2008
Broward New Times,She told me she had six pets — including a Komodo dragon and a "Chiweenie" (half dachshund, half Chihuahua, and fucking adorable, if the pic she showed me

Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay Debuts MotionVR Tours  -  Jul 30, 2008
Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News,...through the crocodilian exhibit, and even walk right up to the glass of the Komodo Dragon’s lair, the newest, hottest Shark Reef attraction.

A sojourn in Sydney  -  Jul 17, 2008
GulfNews,On arrival at our destination I caught my first glimpse of the Komodo dragon, the frill-necked lizard, the cuddly koala, the crocodile and last but not

Out & About  -  Jul 24, 2008
Press-Enterprise,LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY WORLD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, world's largest Komodo dragon and alligator snapping turtle, one of the world's largest and oldest

Out & About  -  Jul 31, 2008
Press-Enterprise,LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY WORLD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, world's largest Komodo dragon and alligator snapping turtle, one of the world's largest and oldest

Out & About  -  Jul 17, 2008
Press-Enterprise,LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY WORLD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, world's largest Komodo dragon and alligator snapping turtle, one of the world's largest and oldest

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Fisherman Survives Cold Night in Creek  -  Jul 29, 2008
AOL News Newsbloggers,June 7 after surviving 36 hours floating treacherous waters and wandering an island off Indonesia, where they reportedly fought a deadly komodo dragon.

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