Megalania: The Giant Australian Lizard
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. They seem to have disappeared sometime after 50,000 years ago. The first aboriginal settlers of Australia might have encountered them.
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"What can be more terrifying than a giant flightless terror bird? Australia has the answer." Australia always has the answer
@maxnadeau2216
7 жыл бұрын
lol
@AvyScottandFlower
7 жыл бұрын
A divorce lawyer?
@legosimp982
7 жыл бұрын
Guys, Avy gives us a hint.
@niesamowiterayson4594
7 жыл бұрын
Natalie Poire Australia also has a giant dangerous (not quite a killer but close enough) bird that doesn't fly
@isaaclittleyoungman348
6 жыл бұрын
Even the cure for cancer
komodoo dragon is megalania but suffer islands dwarfism XD
@adrianbernasol1744
4 жыл бұрын
Yep that's definitely true
Fun fact: Komodo dragons can grow into the sizes of megalanias under the right conditions but it takes hundreds of years, so genetic engineering can definitely bring back megalanias but we dont have the technology to do so,yet
@samuelparker7231
2 жыл бұрын
But won’t they try to eat people
@itsRosshh
2 жыл бұрын
@@samuelparker7231 If they stay in the wild then no lol
@itsRosshh
2 жыл бұрын
@@samuelparker7231 Or if humans are dumb enough to go into the wild and spot one
@ReeseRizzerspoon
Жыл бұрын
@@itsRosshh something tells me giant dinosaurs aren’t too keen on respecting borders
Hm, megalania clearly got extinct due its poor CGI, interesting how they couldn't adapt to the modern world, gg.
@spoonbruh741
7 жыл бұрын
lol
@ray-0249
3 жыл бұрын
Not enough food to supply it’s massive bodies demands.
@andreivlad6797
5 ай бұрын
@@ray-0249, what do you mean? How can the Saltie croc and other crocodilians of over 1 european tonne still survive very well, as in other millions of years, but in the case of monitor lizards, in Australia, there is not enough food for them, except for hand sized and arm sized ones? What the hell, the humans and dingoes didn't eat that much, to bring the Megalania and Thylacoleo to not have any food left. Also, Megalania is just 2 times longer, and only 10 times heavier than the average Komodo Dragon, and because monitor lizards, lizards, legless lizards, snakes, turtles and crocodilimorphs can survive at least 6 months and up to 3 years without food and water, they can eat anything, anywhere, they can and want, without complaining. Those are great ambushers, and it is weird that they got extinct. If the top 3 largest marsupials that weightened more than 1 european tonne didn't go extinct because of the more scarce water and dessertification, the Megalania wouldn't had got extinct either, even if we count to present times, with modern introduced placentals.
Must be an old video as they do not correctly identify the poison glands of the Komodo dragon and instead only identify the old bacteria theory.
@HenrythePaleoGuy
6 жыл бұрын
Indeed.
the way the komodo dragon walk looks hilarious xD
@Hunter87788
4 жыл бұрын
It is kinda adorable
@robertimmanuel577
3 жыл бұрын
@@Hunter87788 no it looks retarded and pathetic it should be ashamed of itself
@batchagaloopytv5816
3 жыл бұрын
it will run a human down in seconds
LOL THE CGI LOOKS LIKE A SPIDER
They found bones that dated back 300 years ago
@tofineuc
7 жыл бұрын
So the Megalania IS still alive, huh?! If it's still alive, then I'll NEVER go to Australia!
@naumiex9126
7 жыл бұрын
Mark Scarlett the aboriginals swear it still exists to this day and naturally they're quite frightened by it
@ztlabraptor211
7 жыл бұрын
Evan.Ethan S not true.
@ztlabraptor211
7 жыл бұрын
Gabriel Mondragon what? They're not savages in the slightest. They're just simple people who live off the land like most other native groups.
@gabrielmondragon6932
7 жыл бұрын
Josh Savages....! (cough, cough)
Interior Crocodile Alligator
@DoubIoons
6 жыл бұрын
Yall some oompa-loompas
All wrong the megalania is a giant lizard that can climb walls and upsidedown on ceilings and when domesticated makes a great pet
@2degucitas
7 жыл бұрын
doggyipatch all the neighborhood pets suddenly go missing, however
@charlieporter8224
7 жыл бұрын
doggyipatch stop playing ark
@splinterhat1599
7 жыл бұрын
Charlie Porter no
@captainnemo4955
6 жыл бұрын
Ark is a fun game but it isn't historically accurate
@rursus8354
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, they were great against invading yetis. They could climb ceilings too. And fly like helicopters to outer space, where they could call for help from Anunnaki.
im watching this with my 2 pet tegu lizards.
If only those creatures were still alive...
@kingcaesar865
5 жыл бұрын
So you'd be fine with a gigantic prehistoric monitor lizard still walking the earth today? It probably could've walked into shops and went to the meat isle, unless it didn't kill a human first.
ah back when they didnt know komodos had venom
@bladerbrawlers
7 жыл бұрын
Spike Dinocroc is Called Poision Bite
@cooliipie
6 жыл бұрын
Bacteria*
The pool man was a cool man, didn't need to be an artificial snack 😳
What is it about Australia! What a great concept for a monster video…
Monitor lizard, ha, I have a principal lizard, trumps yours, ha!
Looks more like a surfboard with legs
Thank God that these monstrous lizards are officially extinct
While going for a lesuriley walk with the family we came across a megalania....enjoy my memoirs !
@pedrocampos691
3 жыл бұрын
Okaay.
I've been fascinated with Varanus species (monitor lizards) for many years and I used to sell a couple of the species (Nile and Savannah monitors) when I owned a wholesale reptile business several years ago. Varanus priscus (Megalania) must have looked very impressive and frightening for any potential humans encountering them in the wild because they dwarfed the largest extant monitor lizard, the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), which can grow to 10' long and potentially 200-300lbs. If there were Aboriginal people in Australia when Varanus priscus was still living, I suspect that they contributed to it's extinction, either directly or indirectly, because us humans are very skilled at wiping out species, just like in the case of the huge flightless Moa birds of New Zealand (the largest species was almost 7' at the back and weighed up to 500lbs) which was hunted to extinction within 100 years of the arrival of the Maori people, which subsequently led to the extinction of the bird's natural predator and the previous largest eagle on earth, the Haast's eagle.
What is this show?
I had a dream about this monster it was terrifying
What the fuck is with that walk XD
Pool attendant Wtf.....
Looks to me like Australia's always housed the deadliest animals.
What is the documentary called?
wow nice ghaphics
Does anybody know the name of the doumantary?
what documentary is this from ?
@donnaphilibin2340
4 жыл бұрын
BIG BAD KENGI
Errrrr Australia never been a safe place to live
Of course it lived in Australia
He looks like he from the Permian.
@RMSLusitania
4 жыл бұрын
He is a dimetroodn
So epic
@pedrocampos691
3 жыл бұрын
So epic.
What can be stranger than a carnivorous flightless bird?! Really? There’s a bunch.
CRIKEY!!!!!
So dragons were real at some point
Great Jagras lmao
megalania is komodo?
@riot2136
7 жыл бұрын
Ahmad Dzataki basically but extinct and 4 times the size lol
heh pretty cool
lmao that shitty CGI is sickening.
Megalania: The Giant Indonesian Lizard
I don't think it ate a man
@optionalpoint4747
8 жыл бұрын
It would have eaten humans, mainly because humans and megalania lived alongside each other and humans were easy prey.
@optionalpoint4747
8 жыл бұрын
The most recent megalania fossil was discovered to be 300 years old... That's pretty close, and that's one of the reasons why people believe that some of them may still be alive.
@OverTheHillGamer
7 жыл бұрын
Source? I call bullshit.
@optionalpoint4747
7 жыл бұрын
+Christopher Speer personally, I'm not really into the "still alive" stuff, it could be bullshit. But I guess you can find the fossil thing if u search it? I really don't remember much about it, it's been some time and I've been quite busy.
@420JackG
7 жыл бұрын
We're the top of the food chain dude, we aren't exactly easy prey.
Komodo from indonesia🇲🇨
@Kheladonn
Жыл бұрын
Megalania from Australia and PNG
If it was alive tofay they would would probably legalise rocket launchers for home defense
Thylacoleo is a lot worse
@fanaticbuster8856
5 жыл бұрын
@Semih Sahin there are fossil records of Megalania with Thylacoleo marks.
@fanaticbuster8856
5 жыл бұрын
@Semih Sahin when we met I don't remember you
@l.d.r6653
2 жыл бұрын
Id be more scared of a terror bird than a thylacoleo
Lol fake That animation
Do you know what is stranger then a giant flightless bird AND a large ancient butcher? *-Chr0min0id 04, 2017* “Your Mother…” *-Me, 2023*
@goodegg1250
7 жыл бұрын
Chrominoid Pro very old joke, pick a more relevant target like young thug lol
Didn't Trump marry one of these?