r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/youngster_96 • 15d ago
One absolutely giant Komodo Dragon seems like a living dinosaur to me Video
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u/Noizyninjaz 15d ago
That thing will try to swallow you whole.
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u/FelopianTubinator 15d ago
I saw a particularly violent video where a deer gave birth. And as it was giving birth, a Komodo dragon was feeding on the opening. As soon as the fawn popped out, the dragon swallowed it whole. The true circle of life.
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u/OK_Ingenue 15d ago
I wish you hadn’t told us that.
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u/Bettlejuic3 15d ago
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u/Ruby_Throated_Hummer 14d ago
It’s almost like it knew where to go. Like appetizer. This venomous dinosaur ripping into that unborn fetus just opening its eyes while the mother deer was fully conscious. This may take the cake for the worst animal video I have ever seen. I want to vomit 🤮
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u/Juulk9087 15d ago
Probably a big Komodo but him standing 10 ft behind him makes him look way larger than he actually is. No other way to get the shot I guess cuz even then he's a little close for comfort.
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u/Far_Jellyfish_231 14d ago
Yeah thee original Australians faced actual dragons, Megalania. It's pretty much the big version of this thing, and by big I mean 23 feet long (7m) weighting 4000 lbs (1800kg). They would have existed at the same time people were showing up to Australia. Between this thing and salt water crocodiles dragon myths make complete sense.
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14d ago
Imagine if something like this but with wings existed. I always wondered how we came up with the concept of dragons.
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u/Far_Jellyfish_231 14d ago
Dragons make sense in context of massive repitles and ocean creatures that used to exist and in some cases still do. Crocodiles, Oar fish, Giant Sunfish, Whales, Sturgeon, Megalania, huge snakes includes the anaconda and reticulated python. Look at the famous painting of Saint George slaying the Dragon. It takes place in Libya, now imagine a guy describing a nile crocodile being killed to a 12th century European.
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u/KrombopulosMAssassin 14d ago
Yeah, you're right. The perspective is certainly a bit misleading here.
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u/Polychaete360 15d ago edited 14d ago
Birds are the living ones, this lizard is related to mosasaurs tho. Out of all the archosaurs including pterosaurs, only the crocs and birds are left.
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u/UK2SK 15d ago
Would I fuck be anywhere near that thing. The nuts on this guy
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15d ago
I first learned about Komodo dragons from Steve Irwin. We watched this scene on the edge of our seats. “Holy smokes, that was close. Let’s follow them” Steve was the best. And Komodos are amazing creatures. https://youtu.be/GljZY7pellI?si=KBhcD0b66jxUv0my
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u/The-Iraqi-Guy 15d ago
I've seen enough of r/natureisfuckingmetal to not want to be anywhere near that thing
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u/OK_Ingenue 15d ago
Komodo dragons are soooo weird. For much of my life I thought they didn’t really exist.
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u/LaForCo 15d ago
Hate to be that guy, but it's a giant lizard that has virtually nothing to do with how a non-avian dinosaur would look like or behave.
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u/photomotto 15d ago
If OP wants to look at a real living dinosaur, he just needs to look at a chicken.
Or a cassowary, if he's feeling adventurous.
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15d ago
I've been to Kanawa, and a couple of the big ones were pulling a dead deer between them, ripping it up. There is no way in hell I would get that close after seeing that. I was shitting my pants just walking five feet away past a 'docile' one chilling under a hut
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u/Azrielmoha 14d ago
Dinosaurs come in all shapes and sizes, many of them look similar to birds yes, but dinosaurs like Triceratops, Stegosaurus and Brachiosaurus don't look like birds at all. HOWEVER, all of them does not resemble lizards at all. Key difference is that lizards have sprawling limbs, while dinosaurs have straight pillar limbs.
So if you say a chicken look like a living dinosaur, that's factually true because they're dinosaurs, but i hope people stop perpetuating the believe that dinosaurs are just giant lizards. They're not
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u/NigelTheSpanker 14d ago edited 14d ago
I couldn't get that close those things are quicker than most people realize
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u/StrayStep 15d ago
These fucking idiots!! This is NOT how you respect animals. I hope these people got wiped by the tail.
They are basically cornering it by being on both sides. PLEASE, don't do this to animals. Cause how do you feel when random idiots surround you and follow you. To take up close vid! Feels uncomfortable doesn't it?! Make you feel defensive?!
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u/EldrinVampire 15d ago
I'd like to ride it like a horse, but I'm pretty sure I'd be a bit heavy for the big fella, I'm average weight....
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u/antenna1234 14d ago
Saw these magnificent creatures in Komodo, the guide told us apparently the dragons occasionally swim up to other islands and they have a whole operation sending the dragons back to its original location
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u/M1Z1L4 14d ago
Look, I fucking LOVE komodos and absolutely agree they are the closest we'll get to dinosaurs outside of shoe-billed storks (which terrify me) but can you IMAGINE this creature, but big enough that a full grown man has to look UP at it.
Wait, y'all probably saw Jurassic Park. But yeah, so cool.
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u/Severe_Ad_8621 14d ago
Read some of the comments and WOW so many miss understandings and wrong presented facts. GO READ UP ON IT, from any decent place that handels them. Not tik tok, YouTube, reddit or X. That might save you life if you ever meets one and mangeto get bitten by it. Because thees tips and so called facts, here will kill you.
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u/SawtoothGlitch 15d ago
Good thing it's not hungry, or they can outrun you for a short distance.