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New Giant Lizard Discovery "an Unprecedented Surprise"
nationalgeographic ^ | April 7, 2010 | James Owen

Posted on 04/11/2010 8:37:03 AM PDT by JoeProBono

It has a double penis, is as long as a tall human, and lives in a heavily populated area of the Philippines. Yet somehow the giant lizard Varanus bitatawa has gone undetected by science until now.

Long known to Filipino tribal hunters, the monitor lizard was identified as a new species in 2009 via its DNA, scale pattern, size, and peculiar penis, a new study says.

At about six and a half feet (two meters) long, the new lizard species is closely related to the world's largest living lizard, the Komodo dragon. Unlike the Komodo, though, Varanus bitatawa has evolved to be a vegetarian.

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: cryptobiology; godsgravesglyphs; lizard; varanusbitatawa
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To: JoeProBono

We hear he is a whiz of a liz,
Because because because because ...
Because of the wonderful things he does!


41 posted on 04/11/2010 10:26:05 AM PDT by tumblindice (He's a party lizard)
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To: JoeProBono

"That's hot"

42 posted on 04/11/2010 10:41:34 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: Nik Naym
I am amazed....33 replies and not one picture of James Carvile.

That would call for two pictures of blah, blah James.

43 posted on 04/11/2010 11:02:39 AM PDT by Leo Carpathian (fffffFRrrreeeeepppeeee-ssed!)
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To: AndrewB
Journalism 101: Always lead with the double penis.

OK


44 posted on 04/11/2010 11:44:52 AM PDT by tophat9000 (It ain't about Black... It ain't about White...It's about a Red...Trying to take our rights!)
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To: calex59
The arrogance of scientists. The natives have known about them, and most likely eaten them, for centuries probably but yet they have now been labeled a “new” species because some jackass scientist happened to stumble over them.

Remark from an elderly American Indian many years ago when stories of Sasquatch were starting to come out of the northwest: "Oh, the white man is finally getting around to that".

Quoted from memory, source Ivan T. Sanderson's "Abominable Snowmen; Legend Come To Life".

45 posted on 04/11/2010 12:32:18 PM PDT by JimRed (To water the Tree of Liberty is to excise a cancer before it kills us. TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: JoeProBono

Varanus Stacius Brownus



46 posted on 04/11/2010 2:34:02 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Dissent is Racism)
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To: wildbill

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Since it has two penii, this lizard definitely needs to be monitored. /rimshot Thanks wildbill.

Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.

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47 posted on 04/14/2010 5:06:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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