Megalania prisca
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| Megalania prisca
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| Megalania prisca (Richard Owen, 1860) |
The Megalania prisca was a giant monitor lizard. It is extinct, and known only from fossil evidence. It lived in Australia sixty-eight thousand years ago.The name Megalania prisca means the “ancient giant butcher”.
Size of the Megalania
The megalania was a giant lizard, weighing over 800 pounds and growing to about eighteen feet in length. The megalania was the largest lizard that ever lived. It was most likely to be a feared predator, for it was able to take down animals ten times its size. Due to its size, and similarities to the Komodo Dragon, it might be thought as a cousin to it. But the Megalania's closest relative is really the perentie, Australia's largest living lizard. There is some evidence that a Megalania may have been sighted by Herpetologist Frank Gordon in 1979.
[http://cryptozoology.com/cryptids/megalania.php
