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It is a lizard on a rock. But it's a damned BIG lizard. Seven or eight years ago a German tourist left his tour group to take pictures of one of these monsters. All they found was his camera. Never did hear what was on the film, but these Komodo dragons can and do kill and eat humans.
Yes, I know today is April 1, but I'm not pulling anyone's leg or other body part on this. YCLIU
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And on top of that I learned a new word by reading the Wikipedia article. Had never heard of clade before. That mighta been a pretty good Hogwash word.
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I've no doubt it's big, I was just saying how's I didn't think photoshopping would make a bit-o-difference.
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Ooo, I remember hearing about that TEd.
I saw a Discovery show on Komodo dragons once. They are huge.
What really amazed me was the constant ooze of biological-warfare sludge dripping from their mouths. They showed a couple of dragons attacking a stray antelope. The dragons didn't even have to run after it – all they did was get in a small nip, and the sludge killed the animal extremely quickly.
The way that they tore that antelope apart makes me really sorry for that tourist.
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Komodo's one of those places I keep meaning to go to. Flores is only just next door and there are some komodos there, so I suppose if one had gone a millennium or two ago one might have seen real hobbit v. dragon battles.
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You mean before the dragons ate all the hobbits?
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Either that or men exterminated them or destroyed their habitat.
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Quote:
You mean before the dragons ate all the hobbits?
Making the place uninhobbitable.
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...or at least uninhobbited. If he burned up the Shire entirely, perhaps they could never come back due to the dragon's scorched-Middle Earth policy.
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