Komodo (island) and Botanical Gardens in Bogor, Java. The records that Ouwens made are the first reliable documentation of details about what is now called the Komodo dragon (or Komodo monitor). Ouwens was keen to obtain additional samples. He recruited hunters who killed two dragons measuring 3.1 metres and 3.35 metres as well as capturing two pups, each measuring less than one metre. Ouwens carried out studies on the samples and concluded that the Komodo dragon was not a flame-thrower but was a type of monitor lizard. Research results were published in 1912. Ouwens named the giant lizard "Varanus komodoensis". Realizing the
Broadley's flat lizard Broadley's flat lizard The Augrabies flat lizard ("Platysaurus broadleyi") is a species of lizard in the Cordylidae family endemic to South Africa. "Platysaurus broadleyi" is also called Broadley's flat lizard. Both the specific name, "broadleyi", and one of the common names, Broadley's flat lizard, are in honor of herpetologist . The Augrabies flat lizard has its geographic range between Augrabies Falls and Pella, North Cape in South Africa. This area includes the lower Orange River, Northern Cape Province, and Gordonia District. The habitat of "P. broadleyi" is rocky savannahs. "P. broadleyi" females and juveniles have a dark brown back, with