a hospital representative said the other animals , believed to amount lower than 4 , 000 in the past , all hatched in the last 2 weeks and 14 eggs are actually under investigation . he says it the komodo ' s most prolific training year all at the zoo . the giant animals first arrived in the early 1980s , but the old births brought their amount from 34 to 66 . the komodo newt can grow up to 10 feet tall and eat as more as 150 pounds . they have a bite that can be deadly and can only be detected in the herd on the eastern indonesian coasts of komodo , padar and rinca .
A Komodo dragon can be 10 feet long.