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Megalania were huge venomous lizards that inhabited Australia a million years ago. They are from the same lizard family as today's Komodo dragon, but they're bigger: Estimates place them at between 11 feet and 23 feet long. Like the Komodo dragons, Megalanias were fast, strong, and lethal. Victims such as pygmy elephants or tortoises would either die from their bite itself or from the poison from the bite. Megalanias disappeared around the time of human arrival in Australia 40,000 years ago.
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