They look like dragons. Armed with sharp teeth, tearing claws and a whip-like tail, these fearsome creatures are not only powerful, theyre also smart. Top predators with intelligence, who learn as they hunt, and who use their brain to track down prey, no matter what. Sounds like these cunning hunters should be a big-brained mammal, but these creatures are reptiles, members of a family that evolved when the dinosaurs roamed the earth. They are the largest lizards still walking the planet, the monitor lizards the Lizard Kings.Ranging in size from the 3-metre long Komodo Dragon to the 20-cm short Pygmy Monitor, this huge scale range within a single genus roughly the difference in body mass between an elephant and a mouse is unmatched by any other group of terrestrial animals.Like all reptiles, monitor lizards are cold-blooded, lay eggs and shed their scaly skins. But thats where the similarities end...