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
Slender glass lizard is regarded as vulnerable or endangered in some states. Its primary threats are loss of habitat, and the fragmentation of what remains, by human development. Slender glass lizard The slender glass lizard ("Ophisaurus attenuatus") is a legless lizard in the family Anguidae. The species is endemic to the United States. Two subspecies are recognised. Slender glass lizards have yellow to brown bodies with six stripes, and they have two lateral grooves (one on each side). Unlike snakes, they have eyelids and ears. "O. attenuatus" can attain a total length (including tail) of up to 1 meter (about 40 inches). "O.