Megalania | Earth's mightiest lizard

Monitor lizards are not to be messed with, especially when they're as giant as the Megalania...
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:23 Discovery
0:59 Description
4:50 Environment
6:57 Interaction with humans
9:04 Q&A
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A reconstruction of prehistoric northern Australia with the diprotodon in the foreground. (Credit: Dorothy Dunphy)
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A menagerie of megafauna that inhabited Australia some 45,000 years ago. Credit: Peter Trusler
On an ancient Willandra lake shore a thylacine and a giant Procoptodon goliah are in the foreground. Behind them are people and a herd of Zygomaturus. Image credit: Laurie Beirne
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[@MarlinMay]

Megalania: I am the biggest and baddest terrestrial in Australia. In the world! Humans: I wonder what megalania tastes like?

[@kevinnorwood8782]

Even though it's official scientific name is now Varanus Priscus, I am VERY happy that Megalania is still considered a valid name for this amazing creature.

[@KhanMann66]

If i recalled T-rex was about to be named something else but due to popularity it retains the name T-rex.

[@Meow_1992]

Don't be silly. Everyone knows that Godzilla is the mightiest lizard.

[@dungeonsanddragonsbutformo9835]

Godzilla isn't a lizard

[@Bobisdumb279]

@@dungeonsanddragonsbutformo9835 he's a mutated Iguana if im correct

[@dungeonsanddragonsbutformo9835]

@Bobisdumb279 you're not. The creature that's a mutated iguana is not godzilla and even if it was; it only applies to that single creature. Every real godzilla is historically and canonically not a mutated iguana

[@TiernanOleary]

NO! Godzilla my be mighty but Leviathan is Mightier with 3 heads and being 300 miles long

[@LizardFella2.0]

​@@Bobisdumb279That's what he was based off of, in actuality in basically every film he was a Dinosaur for some reason.

[@nebirdula5046]

Gotta love the artist putting the cockatoo into each drawing! Great video as always!

[@dino-gen]

I know! I love that series too! Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@legendarybanditmb]

6:48 mega predators casually tearing a human apart, awesome illustration! The jumbo snake is totally egging them on XD

[@colekesten9596]

The bane of the time during PoT playthroughs. Every time I think I'm about to have a easy kill one or more of these things come and steal the kill and scare me off the body

[@HammboneBob]

MEGALANIA EPISODE LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[@sciencenerd7639]

Evolution: a change in the genetic composition (allele frequencies) of a population over time Adaptation: any inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival Evolution occurs via the mechanisms of natural selection, genetic drift, sexual selection, and mutation. Natural selection is the mechanism of evolution that results in adaptation. Great video, thanks so much!

[@SubbyHuskyV]

First!!!!! Hiiiii remember you are doing amazing and we all love you!!! You are an amazing teacher!!!

[@dino-gen]

Aw thank you ☺️ glad you’re enjoying it, just don’t enjoy it on the sly in an IT lesson 😉

[@thegametroll6264]

Have you done koolasuchus yet? To put it simply, it was the real-life prehistoric equivalent of the gulpers from fallout 4 far harbor expansion with the acception that it wasn't a biped. The thing was huge! Look up a picture of it compared to a human being it could definitely swallow someone whole with minimal effort.

[@jabbarmuhammad]

One of my favorite prehistoric predators

[@brucefsanders]

Btw: I have often wondered about the intelligence of dinosaurs. I am Australian and we're have a larger than average population diversity of reptiles in our landscape.... Most of the smaller lizards do not portray an obvious high level of intellect.... But monitor lizard, especially the Perenti, which is a very large monitor lizard. They seem to display great curiosity and cunning and I recent witnessed a large monitor lizard capture a very large bunny rabbit and carry it up a river lamp post where it could not get away to allow it time to consume the bunny whole... This out in mind just how vulnerable our small domestic pets were to predation by these larger intelligent reptiles... This put in mind the question of just how smart do you think dinosaurs were ❓⁉️🤔

[@garysymes3030]

I agree. I kept an Asian water monitor for 10 years. Razor was his name. He’s in reptilandia (or was) now. Point being I knew he was smart. He watched how I got in to feed, clean, top bath up etc by simply sliding one of his 4 x 4.5 foot, 6mm plate glass doors to one side. Also a very heavy bit of glass. Then one day slide the blooming thing open then slipped by my Staffordshire bull terrier, out through the dog flap were he then proceeded to get me into very big trouble. They are very smart creatures despite brain to body size comparisons

[@dino-gen]

I won't spoil my answer to that, since I have a whole video planned ;)

[@zakan4898]

Just daily remainder that snakes and mosossaurs are in squamata clade and are consider as lizards so megalania is not the bigest lizard... but the biggest lizard with legs (?)

[@stopbullshitin]

Have you ever seen the way a megalania behaves at the dinner table?

[@tysonwastaken]

the biggest lizard was tylosaurus edit: why did i read mightiest as biggest edit 2: thumbnail

[@Kurotitan7125]

It's a shame Megalania is extinct but at least the Komodo dragon serves as a Megalania for our time, despite being half the size of a Megalania Also imagine how much damage the venom of a Megalania could do. Komodo venom can drop your blood pressure to the point that you'd go into shock

[@seabass1180]

Has anyone ever been able to get DNA for Megalania? I wonder if Komodos are surviving Megalania with island dwarfism?

[@keithtorgersen9664]

Megalania could qualify for one Tolkien's cold drakes which did not fly or breath fire.

[@PrehistoricMagazine]

Great video as always. Mike

[@dino-gen]

Thanks 👍glad you enjoyed it!

[@robcanisto8635]

dude is hot. i dont even care about lizards but i watched this TWICE.

[@dino-gen]

This has definitely been one the most unexpected fanbase 😂

[@odd-eyesdragoon1024]

Even with the smallest estimates, Megalania would still be as big as the biggest Komodos. (10 ft, 300 lbs)

[@justinhess2747]

Biggest lizard is a Mosasaur.

[@djdeemz7651]

Let’s bring these back and let several dozen loose in each city on earth and televise the footage

[@tsaageotrimm]

such fascinating animals

[@dungeonsanddragonsbutformo9835]

The title of this video is incorrect. There are larger mososaurs and ichthyosaurs who are also lizards. I will however always watch a megalania video

[@Kurotitan7125]

I think he just meant terrestrial lizards. But you're not wrong about the Mosasaurs since they're squamates

[@Bobisdumb279]

Ichthyosaurs are actually more related to turtles and plesiosaurs suprisingly

[@dino-gen]

Technically those are squamates and not true lizards to be fair (well, ichthyosaurs aren’t but you get the idea lol)

[@dungeonsanddragonsbutformo9835]

@@dino-gen squamates are lizards

[@dino-gen]

True, but Squamata does also include things like snakes which most don’t consider true lizards

[@cheeks7050]

wiped out by aboriginals

[@MarlinMay]

9:47 -Careful mate. You're skirting awfully close to Lamarckism, unless you're referring to epigenetic adaptations, which _can_ be passed on to progeny.

[@AL-ku1zq]

Yes, the humans have had an effect on the planet, but they have become weak and overspecialized and will probably soon become much less of a problem, although they may leave quite a mess.

[@brucefsanders]

Still the most visually distracting presenter on KZbin. ‼️🤔