For 80 years, scientists were confident they knew how the Komodo dragon kills its prey. They were wrong the entire time — and it took until 2009 to prove it.

In this episode of Silly Wilds, we break down the real biology behind the world's largest lizard: the venom glands nobody looked for until it was almost too late, how a single bite turns into a days-long stakeout, why adult Komodo dragons eat their own young on sight, and the strange, documented cases of females reproducing entirely without a male.

00:10 The myth that lasted 80 years
01:40 What scientists actually found in 2009
03:10 How the "slow kill" really works
04:55 Hunting animals many times its size
05:55 Why its own babies live in trees to survive it
07:10 Virgin births: reproducing without a male

New animal, new verdict, every single week on Silly Wilds. Guess what's living inside somebody else's body in the next episode — drop it in the comments.

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