Sunday, 8 February 2026

Largest Lizard

The largest species of lizard to ever exist as far as we know is the Magalania, it was native to Australia, and went extinct 40,000 years ago, about the same time humans settled there. 
It grew to about 7 meters long and weighed roughly 500 kg. There is no evidence that it ate people but many experts think it likely did eat people . There is also evidence that people are the reason it went extinct. 

It belonged to the same family as the Komodo Dragon and looked a lot like a monitor lizard only much bigger. 

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