Last lizard standing: The enigmatic persistence of the Komodo dragon
To understand why much of the world's terrestrial megafauna went extinct within the last 50,000 years, we can look at the exceptions: large-bodied species that avoided that fate. The Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) is tenfold heavier than almost any other surviving lizard species, is curren...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2019-04-01
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| Series: | Global Ecology and Conservation |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989419301180 |