The Hunt-Lennox globe map of approximately 1510 is thought to be the first that used the phrase ‘hic sunt dracones’(here be dragons !). The words appeared off the eastern coast of Asia, and may refer to Chinese sailors’ tales of real dragons on a few small Indonesian islands. The western world only confirmed the presence of these dragons in 1910 when a Dutch man was able to photograph and skin one of the giants, a Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodoensis Ouwens). Komodo dragons are