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
California rock lizard ravens, and roadrunners. The genus "Petrosaurus" contains three species. California rock lizard The California rock lizards are a genus (Petrosaurus) of New World lizards in the family Phrynosomatidae. They are endemic to southern California and Baja California, Mexico. This type of lizard lives almost exclusively on rock outcrops, boulder piles, and canyon walls, where it shelters under rocks. The habitat is arid and semiarid foothills and canyons along the western margin of the Colorado Desert. The courtship begins shortly after emergence in early spring. The eggs are laid around June and July. The few predators that could pursue this lizard