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Megalania 3D model made for Lost Creatures exhibition at Queensland Museum.Textured by Andrey Atuchin and supervised by Scott Hocknull.
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He based it on Komodo dragon and Megalania probably looked like one except it’s on steroids 😄
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The coolest thing about Megalania is that "cavemen" live in the same time and place with it.
(yeah, I know "cavemen" isn't a scientific term but I still like using it)
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Was he a dinosaur or something? By the way, looks great.
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Not exactly a dinosaur, just a huge ancestor of the Komodo dragon. Some say they still exist.
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One of the best restitution of Megalania i guess. Some say that several Megalanias still exist in the bush today...
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I guess this thing evolved to komodo dragon since they look exactly the same, but megalania was just bigger
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Possibly, the other way round = the Komodo Dragon might be the "ancestor" of Megalania V. komodoensis fossils are known from the Pliocene of Australia (3.8 mya), to replaced by Megalania and other giant Varanus during in the Pleistocene. In other words monitors identical to the living Komodo Dragon once existed throughout the region during the Pliocene. During the Pleistocene, the "Komodo Dragons" on larger landmasses evolved into giant forms (Megalania etc., which all went extinct), while the "Komodo Dragons" on smaller islands kept being "Komodo Dragons" (which still survives).
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No. Megalania went extinct before it could evolve into a new species.
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I see I guess that would make sense. ^^
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I love Megalania, favourite prehistoric Australian animal.
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Wow! That's looks awesome, which it reminds me of a Komodo Dragon.
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...because the Komodo-Dragon is his closest living relative...!
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Amazing work as usual !
So these Megalania's gathered there for breeding?
The fight at The background kinda points that...
(By The way; they're still alive at depths of Australian forests; LoL !)
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Fantastic! Most renditions of megalania I've seen look goofy or overly dragon-like, but yours is very believable. Hooray for reasonable paleoreconstructions!
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Looks like a badass komodo dragon
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It's one of the Komodo's ancestors. The only difference was these were the size of a bus! I think the spat their poison (not sure). Many people think they inspired Dragon legends
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No, No, No, and No
Megalania may have been a relative of the komodo dragon, not an ancestor
Megalania was about 5.5m long, meanwhile your average bus is 12m long. Big difference
Megalania did not spit poison, and i have absolutely no idea where you got such information from
I don't know how many people think the dragon is inspired by megalania, but i do know they're wrong, Megalania died out around 50,000 years ago, and the only people that ever managed to see them alive was the aboriginals, and they remained isolated on Australia all the way up untill 1606, and by that time, dragons had already been a thing for several centuries. Dragons seem to have been inspired by the humans natural fears, aswell as dinosaur fossils, not some big whopping lizard from down under
Hopefully, you already know better, seeing as your comment dates all the way back to 2015, and if not, then you know better now
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Very interesting
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There might be a chance it survived into modern day, but in small pockets, and plus the coelacanth was declared extinct, but in 1930-something a live specimen just randomly popped up out of no where!
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There's a difference between a fish that lives at the bottom of the sea and a 1-ton apex predator that lives on land, you know....
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Yeah, I'm aware of that! I'm not stupid!
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I'm not sure honestly. Need to ask. )
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If only our species didn't put an end to it and then blame natural changes that didn't even happen....
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