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
Warren's girdled lizard Warren's girdled lizard Warren’s girdled lizard (Smaug warreni ) is a species of relatively large, flattened lizard in the family Cordylidae. The species is endemic to Southern Africa. The specific name, "warreni", is in honor of English zoologist Ernest Warren (1871–1945), who collected the holotype. "S. warreni" is known from the Lebombo Mountains in northeastern South Africa and eastern Swaziland. The preferred habitat of "S. warreni" is rock outcrops on wooded mountain slopes. A shy species, "S. warreni" eats large arthropods and small vertebrates. "S, warreni" has a snout to vent length (SVL) of . The back is dark brown