Komodo dragons are also known ... Snakes and many lizards have forked tongues to pick up microscopic, airborne taste ...

Like snakes, they use their long, forked tongues to sample scents ... If the scent of a meal is stronger on one side of the tongue, the Komodo dragon knows to head in that direction.

They’ll likely be empty, but if you’re lucky, you’ll draw near, and there it will be: the world’s biggest lizard, a grim-faced giant known as the Komodo dragon. The man who devised this ...