Komodo dragon

The Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) is the largest living lizard, in the monitor family Varanidae. Adult males reach 2.0–3.0 m and 70–91 kg, with a reliable maximum near 3.1 m and 166 kg including stomach contents; females measure 1.8–2.3 m. The species is endemic to Indonesia's Lesser Sunda Islands, where it occupies savanna, deciduous monsoon forest and grassland and ambushes deer, wild boar and buffalo, assisted by venom and oral bacteria. Females lay about 20 eggs after maturing at 8–11 years. The IUCN assessed it as Endangered in 2021, with some 3,500 wild individuals.