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	Megalania prisca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Megalania prisca is an extinct giant monitor lizard.
		Megalania was a giant lizard, reaching lengths of 5 to 6 metres (about 17 to 20 feet).
		Megalania was the largest lizard that ever lived, and was a fearsome predator, with heavily built limbs and body and a solid skull full of short blade-teeth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Megalania_prisca (287 words)

	Megalania prisca
		Its extinct relative Megalania dwarfs it in size (8-10 meters) and is the largest known land lizard ever.
		Megalania ambushed its prey and followed it for days,maybey even weeks until it grew weak and died.
		Megalania was also semi-aquatc so it may have ambushed prey like a crocodile.
	deinosaurs.mystarship.com /photo3.html (178 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Megalania Prisca: Dragon of the Australian Outback: By Aaron Justice: In this day and age, Australia is thought of as desert filled with eucalyptus trees and cotton plantations.
		The name Megalania prisca means the âancient giant butcherâ, and this may certainly have been a fitting description for this large meat...
		Megalania prisca was an enormous goanna-like carnivore, at least 5.5 metres long, and with a weight of about 600...
	megalania_prisca.iqexpand.com (451 words)

	Megalania Prisca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This was megalania prisca, a reptile reaching 30 feet in length and weighing at least 1,000 pounds or more.
		Megalania might not be constrained only to Australia--some sightings suggest it may live in New Guinea.
		Whether or not megalania is still alive today is uncertain, but until a dead body, or perhaps a living one, is brought in we will forever find it in textbooks as an extinct animal of prehistoric times.
	www.meta-religion.com /Paranormale/Cryptozoology/Extinct_animals/megalania.htm (610 words)

	Megalania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dubbed Megalania prisca, or simply "the Megalania", this lizard could grow to be twice the size of the Komodo Dragon.
		Megalania might not be constrained only to Australia - some sightings suggest it may live in New Guinea.
		Unfortunately for Megalania enthusiasts, there do not appear to have been many recent sightings, nor do I know of any researchers currently investigating the phenomenon.
	website.lineone.net /~oddweb/oddzoo/m/megalania.htm (545 words)

	Komodo Dragon Stamps
		Fossils from Queensland, Australia of Megalania prisca demonstrate that this much larger cousin of the Komodo Dragon lived as recently as 20,000 years ago.
		Megalania reached a length of nearly seven meters and a weight of 450 kg.
		Other cryptids which may turn out to be giant lizards include Mokele-mbembe, said to inhabit the rivers of the African Congo; the Buru, said to inhabit swampy regions in the Himalayan plateau near Assam, and the Mushrushu or Sirrush, a reptilian creature depicted on the Ishtar Gate of Babylon.
	www.pibburns.com /cryptost/komodo.htm (716 words)

	ABC Science - Australian Beasts - Fact files - Megalania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Megalania was a giant goanna of the open forests, woodlands and perhaps grassland.
		The nearest living relatives of Megalania are the Komodo Dragon of the Flores Islands in Indonesia, and other goannas.
		Megalania fossils have been found at many sites in inland Australia.
	www.abc.net.au /science/ausbeasts/factfiles/megalania.htm (84 words)

	Eric Pianka's Varanid Research
		Megalania prisca is a Pleistocene fossil (19,000-26,000 years BP) from Australia, estimated to have reached 7 m in total length and to have weighed more than 600 kg (Hecht 1975; Auffenberg 1981; Rich 1985).
		Megalania teeth were over 2 cm long, curved, with the rear edge serrated for cutting and tearing the skin and flesh of its prey as these powerful predators pulled back on their bite.
		Several authors have suggested that Varanus komodoensis and Megalania prisca are/were ecological equivalents of large saber-toothed cats, using a slashing bite to disembowl large mammals (Akersten 1985; Auffenberg 1981; Losos and Greene 1988).
	uts.cc.utexas.edu /~varanus/varanus.html (2082 words)

	Prehistoric Life - Ice Age Animals in Australia - Megalania prisca. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Megalania was the largest predator in Australia during the last two million years.
		Megalania have been found in eastern Australia, particularly the Darling Downs of Queensland.
		The articulated skeleton on display at Melbourne Museum has been constructed from casts of these bones and by extrapolating from the corresponding bones of goannas.
	www.museum.vic.gov.au /prehistoric/mammals/megalania_prisca.html (170 words)

	Megalania Prisca
		Although stockier and shorter than the Komodo, megalania prisca was a much larger animal.
		It grew to lengths of up to 30 feet and weighed nearly 1,000 pounds, making it the largest lizard the world has ever seen.
		Megalania roamed the Australian wilderness during the last Ice Age, and could ambush creatures twice its size and 10 times its own weight, killing them with its curved serrated teeth and large claws.
	www.livescience.com /animalworld/top10_dragons-4.html (85 words)

	Prisca Visit New Advent For The Summa Theologica, Church Fathers, Catholic Encyclopedia And More. The N
		The name Prisca or Priscilla is often mentioned by early authorities of the history of the Church of.
		Prisca is on the road which from S. Maria in Cosmedin leads to S. Vasi added a smaller plate to show this very old church.
		Prisca Sapientia re- discovering the vast body of pristine knowledge (prisca sapientia) that had been possessed by the ancients, but in impunging the not-so-prisca motives of the ancients, not to.
	www.99hosted.com /names3868.html (428 words)

	Wonambi Fossil Centre - Megalania prisca
		The name Megalania prisca means the “ancient giant butcher”, and this may certainly have been a fitting description for this large meat eater.
		Megalania probably scavenged from dead animals, but would have also been able to hunt and kill quite large prey.
		However several partial skeletons have allowed scientists to piece together the size and structure of the animal.
	www.naracoortecaves.sa.gov.au /wonambi/megalania.html (71 words)

	T-rex in aussie country - Above Top Secret Conspiracy Community
		Megalania prisca was able to reach on overall length of over 30 feet and could weigh well over 1,000 pounds.
		Though it is widely believed that this lizard is extinct extremely large lizard tracks presumably those of Megalania prisca were found in July of 1979.
		In 1979 there was also a reported sighting of Megalania prisca, Herpetologist Frank Gordon reported seeing a lizard of over thirty feet running as he started his vehicle after completing some work in the field.
	www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/thread111449/pg (1310 words)

	Projects for 2003
		Megalania was three times as long and over sixteen times as heavy.
		Megalania was thought to have followed them into extinction.
		Megalania happened not to a farmer or a layman but to a professional herpetologist called Frank Gorden.
	www.cfz.org.uk /projects/ozdragon.htm (673 words)

	The UnMuseum - Giant Lizards
		Megalania was more than twenty feet in length and weighed more than 1000 pounds.
		Unlike the dinosaurs, Megalania lived at a time when humans were present and undoubtedly Megalania consumed some Homo sapiens.
		The largest known Australian lizard is Varanus giganteus, a relative of Megalania and the Komodos.
	unmuseum.mus.pa.us /bigliz.htm (1364 words)

	Stephenson:Neal:Cryptonomicon:277:a sharpened Y...(Alan Sinder) - Metaweb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Megalania Prisca was a giantsized bulky monitor lizard.
		Fossil skeletons suggests Megalania was a beefy animal, much more bulky than the Komodo Dragon and probably at least one third longer (4 to 5 meters).
		Whether Megalania killed Diprotodon, the largest of the megafauna is a matter of speculation; However it was capable of doing so.
	www.metaweb.com /wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Stephenson:Neal:Cryptonomicon:277:a_sharpened_Y...(Alan_Sinder)&printable=yes (2636 words)

	Paleontology and Geology Glossary: Me
		Megalania prisca is a the largest-known terrestrial lizard (Megalania was not a dinosaur; it lived millions of years after the dinosaurs died and is a relative of the modern-day Komodo Dragon).
		This lizard's deadly teeth were almost an inch (2 cm) long and were curved with a serrated rear edge; they could disembowel a large animal with ease.
		Megalania coexisted with early man in Australia, and may have included people in its diet.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/dinosaurs/glossary/indexme.shtml (2282 words)

	Extinct Australian "Lion" Was Big Biter, Expert Says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Megalania is often cited, erroneously, to be 2,200 pounds (1,000 kilograms).
		He believes that Megalania varied between 200 and 330 pounds (90 and 150 kilograms), about the size of a Komodo dragon.
		Fossils of Thylacoleo are found throughout Australia, whereas Megalania had a smaller range that was heavily influenced by temperature.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2004/03/0305_040305_TVsuperpredator_2.html (1559 words)

	Rex and Heather Gilroys Cryptozoology Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Komodo Dragon of Indonesia, which is probably an evolved offshoot of Megalania, can reach up to 3 metres in length, while in New Zealand Megalania-sized monsters are a commonplace tradition among the native population.
		The origins of Megalania and its cousins can be traced to the Miocene period, around 25 million years ago.
		The average skull of a full-grown Megalania was about 80 cm in length {compared to the 5 cm long skull of a living goanna} and housed ferocious teeth.
	www.internetezy.com.au /~mj129/amazing_creatures_lizards.html (530 words)

	Australia's Lost Kingdoms - Megalania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Description: Megalania was a giant goanna of the open forests, woodlands and perhaps grassland.
		Fossils: Megalania fossils have been found at many sites in inland Australia.
		Did you know?: An adult Megalania may have weighed as much as 600kg.
	www.lostkingdoms.com /facts/factsheet52.htm (79 words)

	MEGALANIA REVIEW PAGE -- TONY MCVEY'S DINOSAUR MODELS
		The 1/30th scale variation and the 1/5th scale model were once available through Saurian Studios; The Sharper Image was marketing the 1/5th scale Tyrannosaur as of this writing (March 1998) for about $6,000.
		Tony has also sculpted a pentaceratops, a galloping triceratops, an apatosaur (the sauropod popularly known as Brontosaurus), and the giant Pleistocene monitor Megalania prisca (in a very limited edition of 30, for Saurian Studios).
		The Saurian Studios pieces (except the 1/5th scale Tyrannosaur) were, and perhaps still are, offered as resin kits; Tony has at one time or another offered others himself as either bronze casts or as resin casts with a bronze finish, occasionally offering the bronzes as limited-edition resins with a bronze-like finish.
	members.tripod.com /~megalania/mcvey.html (969 words)

	Megalania prisca: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Megalania prisca was a giant monitor lizard (Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles)
		Megalania has been extinct (In biology and ecology, extinction is the ceasing of existence of a species or group of species....)
		Mainstream consensus is that there is no reasonable doubt that Megalania is extinct, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/megalania_prisca (768 words)

	In Search of British Dragons, an article by Richard Freeman of the Centre for Fortean Zoology
		It evolved to feed on the giant ice age marsupials such as Diprotodon a rhino sized wombat, and Procoptodon a ten-foot tall kangaroo.
		It was presumed that Megalania died out at least 10,000 years ago but the Aborigines have legends of Mungoongalli a giant lizard.
		Recently part of a Megalania hipbone was uncovered that was sub-fossil.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /fortean/british_dragons2.html (1458 words)

	FaunaClassifieds Forums - megalania
		I think that was Megalania - wasn't it?
		If so, I imagine that the Aboriginies probably said "damned Megalania" quite often as it ate one of their own!
		As recently as the late '70s there have been megalania sightings.
	www.faunaclassifieds.com /forums/printthread.php?t=38520 (696 words)

	Goannas: no lounge lizards - National - theage.com.au
		IT WAS seven metres long, weighed well over half a tonne, and was armed with slashing venom-laden teeth that caused its megafauna prey — giant kangaroos and emus — to collapse and bleed to death.
		Dr Bryan Fry is almost certain that Australia's giant, extinct goanna, megalania prisca, was venomous, like all modern goannas and Indonesia's huge komodo dragon.
		Last week the University of Melbourne venom expert stunned the world of science — just as he did a couple of years ago.
	www.theage.com.au /news/national/goannas-no-lounge-lizards/2005/11/19/1132017026262.html?oneclick=true (627 words)

	Re: Megalania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		At 20:22 17/07/98 -0500, Ann Shmidt wrote: >I would like to know if anyone else on this list watched "Into the unknown" >on the Discovery channel last thursday and there comments on it.
		It was >all about the possibility that Megalania prisca still lives.....
		Megalania grew to at least 5 metres and was probably the top predator in Australia during the Pliocene and Pleistocene.
	dml.cmnh.org /1998Jul/msg00605.html (122 words)

	Riversleigh Lagerstätten
		Other animals would have lived in the open forests and possibly sometimes on the grass lands.
		Megalania was the largest goanna measuring up to 7 metres and weighing in at over half-a-tonne.
		It would have lived in the open forest eating small animals.
	palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk /Palaeofiles/Lagerstatten/Rivers/riversleigh3.html (645 words)

	Cryptozoology
		Megalania by Aaron Justice discusses this giant extinct monitor lizard which was several times the size of the living Komodo Dragon.
		Occasional reports of giant monitor lizards in Megalania's former habitat lead some cryptozoologists to suggest that Megalania may not be extinct, just very rare.
		Online Guide to Monitor Lizards by Harold De Lisle provides a handy list of the monitor lizards of the world, of which the Komodo Dragon is the largest.
	www.pibburns.com /cryptozo.htm (8311 words)

	MEGALANIA -- Larry Dunn's Homepage
		I'm an Ora, known to some of you Western types as a Komodo Dragon.
		While at ten feet long I'm currently the largest lizard in the world (thank you ladies and gentlemen), my ancestor Megalania was over twice as long as me and weighed more than a ton.
		I'll keep an eye on Larry's site (yes, giant lizards do have web presence) and eat him if the website begins to slip.
	members.tripod.com /~megalania (226 words)

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