There, in the trees behind the dunes, I watched a goanna, two feet long, creep up through the branches of a tea-gum, flicking its tongue. |
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The reptile population ranges from a variety of venomous and harmless snakes to the endangered blue-tongued lizard and the goanna, a monitor lizard that grows to 8 feet. |
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The giant goanna, Megalania prisca, approaches a nest of the dromornithid bird, Genyornis newtoni, in Pleistocene central Australia more than 60 000 years ago. |
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The goanna is a predatory lizard native to the Australian mainland. |
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