A 1 1/2 meter monitor lizard which are pretty common in Southeast Asia is a heart attack inducing surprise when you come across them. But these guys!!!
Posted on 09/23/2015 12:42:47 PM PDT by JimSEA
As if life wasn't hard enough during the last Ice Age, a new study has found Australia's first human inhabitants had to contend with giant killer lizards. Researchers working in Central Queensland were amazed when they unearthed the first evidence that Australia's early human inhabitants and giant apex predator lizards had overlapped
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A 1 1/2 meter monitor lizard which are pretty common in Southeast Asia is a heart attack inducing surprise when you come across them. But these guys!!!
I always wanted to save Raquel Welch from the giant lizards and be rewarded.
Megalania.
The closest thing to a dragon that known history had to deal with.
Probably tasted like chicken....
The chick silhouette looks like Brit Ekland.
That definitely qualifies as a dragon, IMO.
But, looks like the humans won so...
Given the lizards went extinct after humans showed up then one can assume they were pretty tasty!
Fáfnir ping
of course humans won. The right to bear arms was prevalent even in caveman time, as if they did not, those pesky lizards would have overrun the humans.
There is some kind of small lizard that is BBQed and sold in Southeast Asian markets. It never occurred to me to taste one any more than did the BBQ rats. They both look very much like you would imagine.
And if it had a toxic bite like most other monitor lizards, yeesh!
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