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Australia’s Megafauna Komodo Dragons

Meet the Komodo dragon, a 200-pound lizard found on several relatively small Indonesian islands today. Paleontologists now know these specimens are a relic population of a lineage of giant monitor lizards once common in Australia. But exactly how did these animals make that trip? And how much longer is their species likely to survive?

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  • Runtime 30 minutes
  • Created May 26, 2019 by
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