Komodo Discovery Royalty-Free Stock Photo

Komodo dragons were first documented by Europeans in 1910, when rumors of a land crocodile reached Lieutenant van Steyn van Hensbroek of the Dutch colonial administration. Widespread notoriety came after 1912, when Peter Ouwens, the director of the Zoological Museum at Bogor, Java, published a paper on the topic after receiving a photo and a skin from the lieutenant, as well as two other speci