Megalania

Megalania (Megalania prisca or Varanus priscus) is an extinct giant goanna or monitor lizard. They were part of a megafaunal assemblage that inhabited southern Australia during the Pleistocene. The youngest fossil remains date to around 50,000 years ago. The first aboriginal settlers of Australia might have encountered them

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Scientific classification

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Reptilia
• Order: Squamata
• Family: Varanidae
• Genus: Varanus Merrem, 1820

Subgenera

• Empagusia
• Euprepiosaurus
• Odatria
• Papusaurus
• Philippinosaurus
• Polydaedalus
• Psammosaurus