Megalania would normally prey on on Australia's large Marsupials, such as Diprotodon and Procoptodon. It would have used its veneomous bite to take down these large animals. Megalania shared it's habitat and rivaled with the marsupial lion Thylacoleo, crocodiles, and other monitor lizards. A Study of modern-day Monitor Lizards prove that Megalania was most likely very noisy when it walked or moved, so chasing down prey likely wasn't an option. What it most likely did was, like modern lizards, lay in wait for prey to pass by, and then jump out in ambush and bite down using its powerful jaws and venom to take them down.
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| - Megalania would normally prey on on Australia's large Marsupials, such as Diprotodon and Procoptodon. It would have used its veneomous bite to take down these large animals. Megalania shared it's habitat and rivaled with the marsupial lion Thylacoleo, crocodiles, and other monitor lizards. A Study of modern-day Monitor Lizards prove that Megalania was most likely very noisy when it walked or moved, so chasing down prey likely wasn't an option. What it most likely did was, like modern lizards, lay in wait for prey to pass by, and then jump out in ambush and bite down using its powerful jaws and venom to take them down.
- Megalania prisca was a 23-foot monitor lizard, much like the Komodo Dragon, that lived in Australia in the recent past. Sightings of the creature have been reported well into the 1970's, and Australian cryptozoologist Rex Gilroy firmly believes that these creatures still survive in modern Australia.
- thumb|Megalania prisca Megalania ("gran errante") es una especie extinta de la familia varanidae. Era un gigantesco varano parte de un conjunto megafaunistico que habitó en Australia meridional, durante el período Pleistoceno hasta hace unos 40.000 años. Los primeros pobladores aborígenes de Australia pueden haberse encontrado con poblaciones de Megalania.
- thumb|236px|Die Rekonstruktion eines MegalaniaVaranus priscus (veraltet auch Megalania) ist eine ausgestorbene Waran-Art, die vor 45.000 Jahren lebte. Der Ur-Waran war mit sieben Meter Länge und geschätzten 1000 Kilogramm eine gewaltige Riesenechse und lebte nicht wie der Komodowaran in Indonesien, sondern in Australien. Sein Körper war sehr kräftg und kompakt und im Vergleich zum Komodowaran hatte er ein recht kurzen Schwanz, aber auch sehr kräfige Gliedmaßen. Auffallend war sein kleiner Mittelkamm, die sonst bei keiner anderen Waranart existiert.
- The megalania was a very large and extremely dangerous monitor lizard that was one of many megafaunal predators to inhabit Australia. It would have competed with the terrestrial crocodile Quinkana, the leopard-sized catlike marsupial Thylacoleo, and the giant flightless bird Genyornis, among other giant carnviores. The Megalania was estimated to have a length of around 25 feet, and weigh 2500 kilograms, or 5,500 pounds. The largest Megalania could kill Diprotodon, the largest animal in Australia at the time. Like modern day Komodo dragons, it has been proposed that Megalania could have been venemous.
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| - The megalania was a very large and extremely dangerous monitor lizard that was one of many megafaunal predators to inhabit Australia. It would have competed with the terrestrial crocodile Quinkana, the leopard-sized catlike marsupial Thylacoleo, and the giant flightless bird Genyornis, among other giant carnviores. The Megalania was estimated to have a length of around 25 feet, and weigh 2500 kilograms, or 5,500 pounds. The largest Megalania could kill Diprotodon, the largest animal in Australia at the time. Like modern day Komodo dragons, it has been proposed that Megalania could have been venemous. Megalania lived during the Pleistocene era and died out around 40,000 BC. There were several causes of the extinction of the Megalania. One cause was due to the prey of Megalania becoming faster and better able to escape Megalania. Another cause was early humans burning the landscape of prehistoric Australia, which not only killed off many Megalania directly, but also caused large swaths of vine jungles to disappear and be replaced by open grasslands. Without the dense vegetation in which to ambush its prey (which was now limited to mostly fast hopping kangaroos), Megalania was doomed to extinction. The last megalanias seem to have disappeared around 40,000 years ago, although there are some claims that they survived until 20,000 years ago. Megalania still has many close relatives still living today. Megalania would be fairly easy to regenarate due to many closely related species not becoming extinct yet. It is possible that some Megalania still inhabit some remote areas of the Australian outback, as reports of seeing Megalania still occur today. Even if Megalania is extinct, it will be remembered as one of the most deadly threats to ancient man.
- Megalania would normally prey on on Australia's large Marsupials, such as Diprotodon and Procoptodon. It would have used its veneomous bite to take down these large animals. Megalania shared it's habitat and rivaled with the marsupial lion Thylacoleo, crocodiles, and other monitor lizards. A Study of modern-day Monitor Lizards prove that Megalania was most likely very noisy when it walked or moved, so chasing down prey likely wasn't an option. What it most likely did was, like modern lizards, lay in wait for prey to pass by, and then jump out in ambush and bite down using its powerful jaws and venom to take them down.
- Megalania prisca was a 23-foot monitor lizard, much like the Komodo Dragon, that lived in Australia in the recent past. Sightings of the creature have been reported well into the 1970's, and Australian cryptozoologist Rex Gilroy firmly believes that these creatures still survive in modern Australia.
- thumb|Megalania prisca Megalania ("gran errante") es una especie extinta de la familia varanidae. Era un gigantesco varano parte de un conjunto megafaunistico que habitó en Australia meridional, durante el período Pleistoceno hasta hace unos 40.000 años. Los primeros pobladores aborígenes de Australia pueden haberse encontrado con poblaciones de Megalania.
- thumb|236px|Die Rekonstruktion eines MegalaniaVaranus priscus (veraltet auch Megalania) ist eine ausgestorbene Waran-Art, die vor 45.000 Jahren lebte. Der Ur-Waran war mit sieben Meter Länge und geschätzten 1000 Kilogramm eine gewaltige Riesenechse und lebte nicht wie der Komodowaran in Indonesien, sondern in Australien. Sein Körper war sehr kräftg und kompakt und im Vergleich zum Komodowaran hatte er ein recht kurzen Schwanz, aber auch sehr kräfige Gliedmaßen. Auffallend war sein kleiner Mittelkamm, die sonst bei keiner anderen Waranart existiert. thumb|left|278px|Megalania SchädelMegalania lebt in den Geschichten einiger Aborigine-Völker weiter, und Kryptozoologen vermuten, dass es wohl noch irgendwo lebende Exemplare geben könnte. Gegner dieser Hypothese vertreten die Auffassunge, es handle sich einfach um Sichtungen großer Exemplare anderer Waran-Arten, die jedoch niemals die Größe von Megalania erreichen könnten. Mit dem Buru scheint es bis vor wenigen Jahrzehnten in Südostasien eine sehr große Waran-Art gegeben zu haben, jedoch ist nicht bekannt, ob die Burus wirklich existieren und ob sie mit Megalania identisch sind oder eine eigene Art bilden.
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