Two endangered Komodo dragons have been born at a zoo ... It was the first time Chester Zoo successfully bred hatchlings from a pair of mating dragons. The reptiles are found on a handful of ...

All Komodo dragons bred in this way will be male. The new clutch are the first Komodo dragons to born at Chester Zoo, where Flora and sister Nessie are part of a European zoo breeding programme to ...

This video shows the moment two of the world’s largest lizards hatched at Chester Zoo. Keepers captured it on camera as the highly endangered baby Komodo dragons hatched. The hatchlings arrived ...

That was the first confirmation of parthenogenesis in captive Komodo dragons; scientists now believe it “happens very often,” says Gerardo Garcia, Chester Zoo’s curator of lower vertebrates ...

The hatchlings arrived weighing around 74g and measuring just 40cm in length after being carefully incubated for six months. They will grow to be more than three metres long and weigh up to 90kg.