Quote Originally Posted by Skiploder View Post
Zack:

Komodos were widely thought to kill prey by septicemia - bacterial infections of the blood - that was proven to be untrue.

The problem with that theory is that the death of large prey occured too quickly to be attributable to systemic bacterial poisoning. It's one of those urban legend things - sort of. While they have a mouth full of many strains of nasty bacteria, that's not what was causing rapid swelling and blood pressure/clotting changes.
Well BG has an interesting view on this since he has been to Komodo Island and talked with the guides about this. They were aware of the report that Dragons had venom. They however said it is not true. BG did not want to argue with them about it. He's not so sure that they could really know for sure. It was interesting that they said this though.