a city officer called the endangered lizards , believed to number less than 4 , 000 in the wild , all incubated in the last two weeks and 14 babies are still under observation . he calling it the komodo ' s most successful breeders life ever at the zoo . the giant beasts first arrived in the early 1980s , but the new births brought their number from 34 to 66 . the komodo dragon can growth up to 10 feet height and weigh as much as 150 pounds . they have a bite that can be deadly and can only be kept in the wild on the eastern indonesian islands of nui , padar and rinca .
A Komodo dragon can be 10 feet long.