Scientists have recently taken a closer look at the mouths of Komodo dragons, and boy, were they surprised! As it turns out, the hypothesis about bacteria killing the dragons' prey was nothing but a "fairy tale". Scientists discovered that the Komodo dragons in fact have a primitive venom-delivery system, akin to that of the only formerly-known to be venomous lizard, the Gila monster. This discovery implies that the dragons' close relative, the "Megalania" prisca, might also have had the same venom, which would make it the largest venomous animal known to science. Photo courtesy of National Geographic.
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