A female Komodo dragon named Charlie, under the care of Tennessee’s Chattanooga Zoo, has given birth to three hatchlings without the help of any male dragon. The rare event is being celebrated ...

How does it work? In humans, males have both male and female sex chromosomes. In Komodo dragons, females do—so Flora had within her the genetic materials needed for embryos to develop.

A full-grown male Timor deer can easily outweigh a Komodo Dragon, but this doesn’t mean the dragon won’t try to make a meal out of it. If the deer happens to be small enough, the Komodo may ...

Male Komodo dragons typically live to be about 20 years old in human care. That means Murphy is elderly in Komodo dragon years and requires some special care for conditions that are a natural part ...

Komodo dragons were all alone ... Their efforts have told them a lot about numbers, male-female ratios, survival rates, and breeding success—and how inbred the populations are.

"In this incident, two male Komodo Dragons unintentionally entered the same cage and attacked each other. The injured employee instinctively tried to intervene and was injured by the larger male ...

2. They are capable of ‘virgin birth’ Komodo dragons are one of the only animals able to reproduce without male fertilisation. This is due to a process of asexual reproduction known as ...

But in Komodo dragons this method of reproduction can only produce male offspring. So a female living alone could give birth to a son by parthenogenesis, have sex with him and repopulate the area ...