Aren't Komodo dragons a throw back to the dinosaur? Those suckers (in this case eaters) can get huge. What an awful incident.
I'm not too fond of lizards... we have salamanders (mudpuppies) galore!!!!... close enough to lizards (are they of the lizard family? don't know, need to look that up). Nothing worse than running to the car barefooted and stepping on one of the darn things. You can try to avoid them, but some are like opossum, they freeze mid-trip, placing themselves right in your path and under your barefoot.