Based on a single observational study from the 1970s, published in 1981 by biologist Walter Auffenberg, we've long assumed that Komodo dragons cause fatal infections in their prey by gifting prey with scary bacteria that lives in the mouths of the dragons.
It's not venomous, we were told: it's something scarier, a filthy, writhing bite that causes festering wounds. But a study in 2009 by Bryan Fry from the University of Queensland showed that this isn't the case.
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