They’ll likely be empty, but if you’re lucky, you’ll draw near, and there it will be: the world’s biggest lizard, a grim-faced giant known as the Komodo dragon. The man who devised this ...

This story appears in the November 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Komodo dragon, the largest species of lizard now alive, can grow to 10 feet long and nearly 200 pounds.

The famed Indonesian island, home to the rare Komodo dragon, will be closed in 2020 after smugglers stole 41 of the giant lizards. A tourist has been attacked by a Komodo dragon in Indonesias ...