Komodo dragons and crocodiles are apex predators with distinct hunting strategies. The Komodo dragon uses venom and endurance ...

The Komodo dragon is the world's largest living lizard, yet its hunting strategy is unlike almost any other predator. Instead ...

When male Komodo dragons rise on their hind legs to grapple, they are performing a ritualized contest that determines mating ...

On the Indonesian island of Komodo, the world’s largest lizard competes in incredible fights to earn mating rights ...

Until about 60,000 years ago, diminutive hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (affectionately nicknamed Hobbits for obvious reasons), shared the island of Flores with Komodo dragons, pygmy elephants, ...

Homo floresiensis (center) had a skull about the size of a grapefruit and stood a little more than three feet tall. Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images At least 60,000 years ago, a group of petite early ...

Long ago on the Indonesian island of Flores, Komodo dragons ate first, ripping into the flesh of cow-sized elephant kin and stripping their bones. Our tiny human relatives probably picked at the ...

Researchers working with the Smithsonian pored over 10,061 artifacts and other elements to determine whether tiny ‘Homo floresiensis’ used fire or hunted big game. Reading time 3 minutes A 3D digital ...

The diminutive ancient humans nicknamed hobbits that lived on the Indonesian island of Flores until around 50,000 years ago had limited hunting skills, according to a study of animal bones found in ...

An ancient human ancestor called Homo floresiensis was likely a scavenger who subsisted on the scraps left behind by the fearsome Komodo dragons that shared their home on the island of Flores in ...

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Researchers fed a Komodo dragon a goat to figure out if Homo floresiensis truly were the hunters they were originally thought to be. Researchers thought that the ancient human relative known as Homo ...