In Depth
Further Reading
– Description of Some Remains of a Gigantic Land-Lizard (Megalania Prisca, Owen) from Australia – Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London – Richard Owen – 1859. – The morphology and relationships of the largest known terrestrial lizard, Megalania prisca Owen, from the Pleistocene of Australia. – Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 87: 239–250. – M. Hecht – 1975. – Rebuilding a giant lizard. – In Clayton, Georgina; Archer, Michael. Vertebrate zoogeography & evolution in Australasia: (animals in space and time). Carlisle, W.A.: Hesperian Press – T. Rich & B. Hall – 1984. – Possible affinities between Varanus giganteus and Megalania prisca. – Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 39: 232. – M. S. Y. Lee – 1996. – A review of terrestrial mammalian and reptilian carnivore ecology in Australian fossil faunas, and factors influencing their diversity: the myth of reptilian domination and its broader ramifications. – Australian Journal of Zoology 50: 1–24. – S. Wroe – 2002. – Megafaunal extinction in the late Quaternary and the global overkill hypothesis – Alcheringa 28: 291–33 – S. Wroe, J. Field, R. Fullagar & L. S. Jermiin – 2004. – Neurocranial osteology and systematic relationships of Varanus (Megalania) prisca Owen, 1859 (Squamata: Varanidae). – Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155: 445–457. – J. J. Head, P. M. Barret & E. J. Rayfield – 2009. – A central role for venom in predation by Varanus komodoensis (Komodo Dragon) and the extinct giant Varanus (Megalania) priscus – PNAS 106 (22): 8969–74. – Bryan G. Fry, Stephen Wroe, Wouter Teeuwisse, Matthias J. P. van Osch, Karen Moreno, Janette Ingle, Colin McHenry, Toni Ferrara, Phillip Clausen, Holger Scheib, Kelly L. Winter, Laura Greismana, Kim Roelants, Louise van der Weerd, Christofer J. Clemente, Eleni Giannakis, Wayne C. Hodgson, Sonja Luz, Paolo Martelli, Karthiyani Krishnasamy, Elazar Kochva, Hang Fai Kwok, Denis Scanlon, John Karas, Diane M. Citron, Ellie J. C. Goldstein, Judith E. Mcnaughtan & Janette A. Norman – 2009. – Temporal overlap of humans and giant lizards (Varanidae; Squamata) in Pleistocene Australia. – Quaternary Science Reviews. 125: 98–105. – Gilbert J. Price, Julien Louys, Jonathan Cramb, Yue-xing Feng, Jian-xin Zhao, Scott A. Hocknull, Gregory E. Webb, Ai Duc Nguyen & Renaud Joannes-Boyau – 2015.
