" He was just a wonderfully laid-back lizard."
-- Zoo Miami’s Ron Magill
After making an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman about a decade ago, Zoo Miami’s Ron Magill said he “wanted to make history.”
So he took his sidekick — a 7-foot-long, 150-pound Komodo dragon named Khaos — to Times Square for a photo.
“It was a historic moment,” he said. “A Komodo dragon in the middle of Times Square. A lot of people were looking at us.”
Khaos, who became one of the zoo’s outreach animals and appeared on national television shows and at school presentations, died Monday at age18.
Read more at the Miami Herald.