Curse You And Your Superior Lizard Knowledge!

Curse you and your superior lizard knowledge!

(I kid, I kid. I should have been more diligent in my fact checking as well.)

But! If you check out the original post, the lizard in question is a Komodo Dragon, which is a type of monitor lizard.

To further clarify, the second gif features Odin, a Savannah Monitor dressed as a Night Fury (from How To Train Your Dragon).

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Not gonna lie -- I reblogged this partially for the pun, and partially because i really want to track this down and buy it.

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You're quite right -- thank you for pointing that out!

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