The largest lizard in the world
The largest lizard in the world is the Komodo monitor lizard, which can reach up to 165 kg and is longer than 3 meters. Komodo dragons are the largest in both size and weight of the lizard family. The Komodo monitor lizard is also certified by Guinness as "the world's largest lizard".
Introduction to the Komodo dragon
The Komodo dragon has rough skin, a body covered with bulging pimples, no scales, thick hard skin and a long tongue, hard claws. The tail of the Komodo dragon is very powerful and thick. Komodo dragons have sharp teeth and a keen tongue that acts like a snake to collect odor particles.
Komodo dragons are unusually ferocious when they pounce on predators. The speed of running is extremely fast, there is a huge venom glandular tube in the front of the jaw, and the mouth breeds a large number of bacteria, germs, and a complex venom gland, which will make the blood pressure of the prey bitten by it drop and bleed more than once and then infect and die.
Adult male Komodo dragons have an average body length of 2 to 3 meters and weigh about 79 to 91 kg, while adult females are relatively small, usually about 1.8 meters and weigh 68 to 73 kg. The largest Komodo monitor lizard on record is over 3 meters tall and weighs 166 kg.
Komodo monitor lizards are on the brink of extinction, with only about 3,000 remaining in the wild. In 2012, it was listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
