Timor deer have the unfortunate luck of existing ... and turning them into yesterday’s news. Although seeing a Komodo eat a full-grown male buffalo is rare, it has happened on occasion.

A muscular carnivore armed with sharp teeth, Varanus komodoensis dines on prey as large as deer, wild boar, and water buffalo. As formidable as the Komodo dragon seems, it’s very much at risk.

As well as eating birds, pigs, deer and buffalo, dragons eat other dragons ... They are capable of ‘virgin birth’ Komodo dragons are one of the only animals able to reproduce without male ...

Komodo dragons have ... curved teeth which they use to eat almost any kind of meat, pulling and tearing at their prey – from smaller reptiles and birds to deer, horses or water buffalo ...