Sentences with phrase «of komodo dragons»

The sights of Komodo dragons on the island of Rinca on the last day of our trip was another highlight for me.

Komodo Island is the bigger of the two islands and has the largest population of Komodo dragons.

We booked a flight from Bali to Flores Island ready to go in search of Komodo dragons.

I'd never even heard of a phinisi but I've certainly heard of the Komodo dragons.

The homeland of Komodo dragons, the enchanted Kelimutu tri-colored volcanic lakes, and one of world's best dive sites.

The action sequences are far more restrained than the opening (A bit in a den of Komodo dragons is the campy exception — an entertaining one, nonetheless), like the fight that ensues between Bond and the thief in an abandoned wing of a skyscraper with glass walls like mirrors reflecting only the ambient light a massive illuminated sign in the night.

A team of researchers at the College of Science at George Mason University has detected 48 antimicrobial peptides in the blood plasma of Komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis), the largest living lizards.

This study is the largest of its kind on captive Komodo dragons, and the first to investigate the microbial communities in the feces and skin of Komodo dragons.

He had the appetite of a Komodo dragon, but he loved kids even more than food.

The venom gland «is not a trivial structure, [but] a big bulge» on the lower jaw, says Fry, who compares previous ignorance of the Komodo dragon's venomous capabilities as akin to «missing the teeth on great white sharks and saying they are plankton eaters».

Like many parts of the world during the most recent ice ages (the last of which ended about 12,000 years ago), Australia had its share of weird giant animals, including a supersized relative of the Komodo dragon, today's largest land lizard.

I read a news recently that a tourist got bitten on his leg while he was taking photos of the Komodo dragon.

The memory of squatting within metres of a Komodo dragon is one that stays with you forever — regardless of age.

Morning after breakfast at your hotel transfer to the pier of Labuan bajo to visit Rinca Island for Komodo Dragons, after 2 1/2 hours sailing start your trekking walking through the typical dry forest to explore the Island of Komodo dragon, you will find not just the Dragons but also many wild animals like, deer, wild buffalo, long - tailed macaque and wild pig also numerous of birds.

Early morning start your trekking on Komodo, walking through the typical dry forest to explore the Island of Komodo dragon, you will find many wild animals like, deers and wild pigs and also numerous of birds.

The stomach of the Komodo dragon is very accommodating, allowing up to 80 % of the animal's body weight to be consumed (National Geographic).

While being impressive in size, the most interesting aspect of the Komodo dragon is its mouth.

The tail of the Komodo dragon is long and powerful (Smithsonian National Zoological Park).

Not exact matches

The old ways of the rich and privileged old men who run the RC church are numbered and don't think they're going to go down without a fight.They are much akin to a komodo dragon.

With a few bones of his own, vertebrate paleobiologist John A. Ruben of Oregon State University contends that dinosaurs are more akin to komodo dragons than cockatiels.

In a land where survival is precarious, Komodo dragons thrive despite being exposed to scads of bacteria that would kill less hardy creatures.

Each new dinosaur discovery seems to tell us that the megabeasts of yestermillennia are more closely related to the partridge than the Komodo dragon.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego, the University of Colorado - Boulder, the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory, are the first to identify similarities in the way in which Komodo dragons and humans and their pets share microbes within closed environments.

To date, no comparable studies of wild Komodo dragons have been conducted.

Evidence of butchery and fire on animal bones found near hobbit remains suggests that these early humans enjoyed a good barbecue, usually of baby elephants, huge rats, and deadly Komodo dragons that they hunted and killed.

Researchers noticed this pattern after sampling the microbial communities found in the saliva, skin and feces of 37 Komodo dragons across 12 U.S. zoos as well as the environment of two of the 12 enclosures.

But when placed in a closed environment, Komodo dragons interact with their surroundings much in the same way humans do — at least on the microbial level — and researchers are using this knowledge to help them understand the health of animals in captivity.

Elsewhere in the Indonesian archipelago, a similar array of pressures conspired to produce huge lizards like the Komodo dragons, giant rats, and tiny elephants.

Although most Komodo dragons in the wild continue to reproduce sexually, this giant lizard is one of a growing number of vertebrates that reproduce parthenogenetically in captivity.

The virgin births of several male Komodo dragons at two English zoos might provide one explanation why Jesus was not a clone of Mary

In 2006, staff members at two zoos in the United Kingdom identified two female Komodo dragons that each laid an unusual clutch of eggs.

Fighting Komodo dragons, a tiny translucent octopus and art - loving storks are among the finalists of this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition

This photo of a sudden fight between male Komodo dragons has been shortlisted for this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

Dullah tells me there are only about 1500 dragons on the island of Komodo — although there are also populations on Flores, Rinca, Gili Motang and Padar.

Steve: It's true, just as you said years ago I edited an article on the Komodo dragon of Bob and Ray fame; but there had been really only two people who had done serious research on Komodo dragons; some might argue with that and say that the number is closer to the fingers on one hand for somebody who hasn't spent a lot of time in machine shops.

Yet while some animal and plant species can reproduce without sex, such as komodo dragons, starfish and bananas, sex is still the dominant mode of reproduction in the natural world.

So, Dr. Bishop and his colleagues wondered whether they could isolate CAMPs from Komodo dragon blood, as they previously had done with alligator blood to expand the library of known CAMPs for therapeutic studies.

Each location features its own site - specific action sequence — a tense chase through the Underground, a stealthy assassination lit only by changing neon signs, a primal fist fight involving Komodo dragons — that shows off a different aspect of Bond's impressive new aesthetic universe.

Apparently inspired by an article he read on asexual reproduction amongst Komodo dragons, Sawers dreamt up a clever premise resting just on the periphery of science fiction, conjuring an alternate history where women begin to reproduce agamically, and men, no longer biologically needed are obsolete and edge towards extinction — well, except for a significant but doting assemblage in Australia.

Starting with a worm eating a speck of dirt, this oversize book, illustrated with mixed - media artwork, depicts 11 progressively larger animals and their life - size bites, including an octopus eating a crab and a Komodo dragon eating a snake.

Exciting, poetic language describes a mysterious, ultragreen object, an object so green that it incorporates the green of grapes, green moths, traffic lights, ocean waves, and a gaping Komodo dragon.

Komodo bonds, rupiah - denominated global bonds issued in Indonesia, «The Komodo dragon is a very large species of lizards found in eastern Indonesia.»

His future adventures include gorilla trekking in Rwanda, the orangutans of Borneo, and the Komodo dragons of Komodo island.

The most famous monitor is the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), the world's largest living lizard at nearly ten feet, and a notorious predator capable of taking down large cattle and humans.

Indonesia is abundant with many national parks which have everything from Komodo dragons (not the Game of Thrones type) orangutansns, whalesharks, and many more exotic species.

Komodo is home to over 5,000 of the world's largest lizards, the Komodo dragon.

However, George, it seems, did not have great success at ridding the earth of the scaly reptiles, for the komodo dragon exists to this present day on a small collection of islands that make up the Komodo Nationalkomodo dragon exists to this present day on a small collection of islands that make up the Komodo NationalKomodo National Park.

The English have a bit of an obsession with dragons, and one man decided to go in search of them for real, taking him all the way to a trek through Komodo National Park.

I visited the park in February 2017 and was truly amazed and speechless at nature's splendor in this part of the world, not to mention being mesmerized by the fascinating Komodo dragons.

In both cases, outside of mating season, you're pretty sure to see at least a few Komodo dragons — perhaps not capturing and eating a buffalo but rather hanging around a park kitchen waiting for scraps.