Seven tiny cute little baby komodo dragons have been born in a zoo in Indonesia's East Java Province. You'll want to watch the BBC News video.

  • rob_cornelius

    I still think one of the most chilling things I have ever seen on a David Attenbrough wildlife programme was when a Komodo dragon attacked and bit a cow and just followed it around for days waiting for an infection to set in and kill it.

    Their was a “making of” bit at the end and the cameramen admitted that it was one of the hardest things they ever had to film

    • SomeGuyNamedMark

      Sounds gruesome.  I wonder what it is about the Komodo’s biology that allows it to comfortably harbor these bacteria and eat the infected meat without any problems.

  • Pobol Pobotrol

    Unknown to humans until 100 years ago? Unknown to western civilisation surely!

    • tomrigid

      No. Every human that ever saw a Komodo dragon before 1913 was chased down, bitten, and followed unto infectious death. Komerta.

      • SomeGuyNamedMark

        Those that the Komodo didn’t bite were relentlessly hounded online via social media.

  • AnthonyC

    I find that any article on this species gets more fun if you simply omit the word “komodo”

  • Brainspore

    I like to imagine that the public got their first awesome glimpse of these baby komodo dragons as they perched peacefully on the naked, ash-covered body of a lithe blonde zookeeper.

  • jimkirk

    They’re known to attack their victims through soft tissue or orifices (testicles, throat, anus) and eat their way through.  Not so adorable now, are they?

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/12/indonesia