What is Megalania?
Q: What is Megalania?
A: Megalania is a giant monitor lizard that lived in southern Australia.
Q: When did Megalania live?
A: Megalania lived during the Pleistocene and seems to have disappeared around 40,000 years ago.
Q: What kind of species was Megalania part of?
A: Megalania was part of a species of megafauna that lived during the Pleistocene.
Q: Who may have encountered living Megalania?
A: The first Aboriginal settlers of Australia may have encountered living Megalania.
Q: Was Megalania a land-based or aquatic lizard?
A: Megalania was a land-based lizard.
Q: What did Megalania feed on?
A: Judging from its size, Megalania would have fed mostly upon medium- to large-sized animals, including any of the giant marsupials like Diprotodon.
Q: Are there any living relatives of Megalania?
A: The closest living relative of Megalania is the Komodo Dragon, which is also a monitor lizard.
