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a komodo dragon in Indonesia
January 28, 2014

Here Be Dragons

An adult Komodo dragon hangs out near Indonesia's Komodo village. With people living inside the dragon-protecting Komodo National Park and poorly marked boundaries for wildlife habitat, encounters with lizards are inevitable. Most end without injury.

See more pictures from the January 2014 feature story “Once Upon a Dragon.”

Photograph by Stefano Unterthiner, National Geographic

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