a zoo ranger said the endangered turtles , said to amount less than 4 , 000 in the wild , all hatched in the last twelve weeks and 14 eggs are still under observation . he calls it the lizards ' s most successful breeding year recently at the zoo . the giant dragon first arrived in the early 1980s , but the new births brought their population from 34 to 66 . the komodo dragon can grow up to 10 feet long and weigh as much as 150 pounds . they have a bite that can be fatal and can only be encountered in the mountains on the eastern indonesian islands of komodo , padar and rinca .
A Komodo dragon can be 10 feet long.