Scientific Inquiry Process Finds That Komodo Dragons Don’t have a Toxic Bite After All
Posted on July 7, 2013 Comments (1)
This articles is another showing the scientific inquiry process at work. Scientists draw conclusions based on the data they have and experiments they do. Then scientists (sometimes the same people that did the original work) seek to confirm or refute the initial conclusions (based on new evidence or just repeating a similar experiment) and may seek to extend those conclusions.
Sometimes the scientists conclude the initial understanding was incorrect, such as with Komodo Dragon’s: Here Be Dragons: The Mythic Bite of the Komodo
It’s a truly fascinating way for an animal to feed — well, truly fascinating in that it’s not true at all.
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Categories: Animals, Life Science
Tags: animals, bacteria, biology, Science, scientific inquiry
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August 5th, 2013 @ 5:23 am
Hi John, it was really a shock for me to learn that Komodo dragons are not the dangerous and lethal creatures they are portrayed on the silver screen. Seems like the poor creatures have been defamed for no rational reason. Thanks for sharing the post.