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    The komodo dragon is the largest lizard in the world, growing up to 10 feet long and weighing 366 pounds. It lives on several Indonesian islands and has gray scaly skin, a pointed snout, and a muscular tail. Komodo dragons use their keen sense of smell to locate animal remains from miles away, hunting other lizards as well as large mammals. Their saliva contains bacteria that causes fatal blood poisoning in their prey. This threatened species faces risks from hunting, habitat loss, and loss of prey species.

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    The komodo dragon is the largest lizard in the world, growing up to 10 feet long and weighing 366 pounds. It lives on several Indonesian islands and has gray scaly skin, a pointed snout, and a muscular tail. Komodo dragons use their keen sense of smell to locate animal remains from miles away, hunting other lizards as well as large mammals. Their saliva contains bacteria that causes fatal blood poisoning in their prey. This threatened species faces risks from hunting, habitat loss, and loss of prey species.

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    The komodo dragon is the largest lizard in the world, growing up to 10 feet long and weighing 366 pounds. It lives on several Indonesian islands and has gray scaly skin, a pointed snout, and a muscular tail. Komodo dragons use their keen sense of smell to locate animal remains from miles away, hunting other lizards as well as large mammals. Their saliva contains bacteria that causes fatal blood poisoning in their prey. This threatened species faces risks from hunting, habitat loss, and loss of prey species.

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    The komodo dragon is the largest lizard in the world, growing up to 10 feet long and weighing 366 pounds. It lives on several Indonesian islands and has gray scaly skin, a pointed snout, and a muscular tail. Komodo dragons use their keen sense of smell to locate animal remains from miles away, hunting other lizards as well as large mammals. Their saliva contains bacteria that causes fatal blood poisoning in their prey. This threatened species faces risks from hunting, habitat loss, and loss of prey species.

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    KOMODO DRAGON Do you know what is the largest lizard? This lizard is called komodo.

    It lives in the scrub and woodland of a few Indonesian islands. Komodo dragon is the world's heaviest lizard, weighing 150 pounds or more. The largest Komodo ever measured was more than 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighed 366 pounds (166 kg) but the average size of komodo in the wild is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) long and 200 pounds (91 kg) Komodo has gray scaly skin, a pointed snout, powerful limbs and a muscular tail. They use their keen sense of smell to locate decaying animal remains from several miles away. They also hunt other lizards as well as large mammals and are sometimes cannibalistic. The Komodo dragon's teeth are almost completely covered by its gums. When it feeds, the gums bleed, creating an ideal culture for virulent bacteria. The bacteria that live in the Komodo dragon's saliva causes septicemia, or blood poisoning, in its victims. A dragon will bite its prey, then follow it until the animal is too weak to carry on.

    This lizard species is threatened by hunting, loss of prey species and habitat loss. Tyrannosaurus Rex Tyrannosaurus rex, sometimes just called T-rex, is believed to be the largest and most fearsome predator on Earth's land ever to have existed. This dinosaur once lived in the Creataceous period approximately 68 to 65 million years ago. The T-rex lived in a humid, semi-tropical environment, in open forests with nearby rivers and in coastal forested swamps. The seasons were mild. Tyrannosaurus rex was up to 40 feet (12.4 m) long, about 15 to 20 feet (4.6 to 6 m) tall. The arms were only about 3 feet (1 m) long. Tyrannosaurus rex was roughly 5 to 7 tons in weight. As a carnivorous dinosaur, this giant predator most likely ambushed their prey, and devoured them with jaws full of white sharp teeth. With it's fast ability to run at an astonishing speed of 32 mph (50 kmh), a perfect slim and stiff tail that gave it an excellent balance and allowed it to make quick turns, equipped this gigantic predator and made it even more deadly, like a killing machine.

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