Visitors to the Saint Louis Zoo’s Charles H. Hoessle Herpetarium over the past few weeks will have noticed a long black curtain covering one wall of the building’s main atrium. It’s there to protect ...

Downing a vial of Komodo dragon blood to fight a bacterial infection might sound like something prescribed by a meister on Game of Thrones, but new research shows that the substance might have very ...

Charlie dragon gets his name from Zoo Director Emeritus Charles Hoessle. Dragons like him can grow to 10 ft in length and 300 ...

For the first time in the Bronx Zoo's 122-year history, six Komodo dragons were successfully bred and hatched. An official with the Bronx Zoo told Newsweek that the breeding process began in 2014 when ...

Komodo dragons are the largest living lizard in the world, of over 3,000 lizard species. Females measure up to 6 feet in length and males measure up to 10 feet in length. Females can weigh up to 155 ...

Komodo dragons are incredible animals. They're lizards, but they have a number of unique tweaks to their chemistry that gives them advantages often only seen in mammals. To figure out how these large ...