- and Var**** bitatawa) are
primarily frugivores.
Among species of
living varanids, the
limbs show
positive allometry,
being larger in larger-bodied species...
-
about 1920. The name may have been
suggested by the
occasional habit of
varanids to
stand on
their two hind legs and to
appear to "monitor", or perhaps...
-
Saniwa is an
extinct genus of
varanid lizard that
lived during the
Eocene epoch. It is
known from well-preserved
fossils found in the
Bridger and Green...
- 8 ft) in
precaudal length,
given that the
largest specimens of
modern varanid species are
larger than
average individuals by 151 to 225 percent. Megalania...
- The
Asian water monitor (Var**** salvator) is a
large varanid lizard native to
South and
Southeast Asia. It is
widely considered to be the second-largest...
- Archaeovar**** (meaning "ancient Var****") is
genus of
varanid lizard from the
early Eocene (Ypresian)
Yuhuangding Formation of
Hubei Province, China...
- only have 1-2
replacement teeth behind each
tooth position. As with
other varanids,
Komodo dragons have only a
single ear bone, the stapes, for transferring...
- The Rosenberg's
monitor (Var**** rosenbergi) is an
Australian species of
varanid reptile found in
southern regions of the continent. They are
large and...
- the
relationship between tooth height and
skull length, and
found that
varanids like the
crocodile monitor had
substantially greater ratios of
tooth height...
- sought, instead, to
demonstrate a
close relationship between mosasaurs and
varanid (monitor)
lizards and who
generally considered snakes to have
evolved from...
