The fossil remains are of a mosasaur, a large reptile distantly related to the monitor lizards of present-day Africa and Asia.
For example, Omolo and colleagues [10] report significant increases in catches of subspecies of Glossina fuscipes, in the presence of monitor lizards (for G. f. fuscipes) and pigs (G. f. quanzensis).
The population of yellow-spotted monitor lizards, for example, is thought to have fallen by 90%.
Germany is strangely interested in the Quince monitor lizard, a native of Indonesia.
But according to Rus, the obstacle-collision system encountered only one difficulty, when a large, slow-moving monitor lizard crossed the path of one of the golf carts.
Natural predators of magpies include various species of monitor lizard and the barking owl.
One said he was known as "the lizard man" for his habit of taking his two pet monitor lizards, one of them four feet long, for walks on leashes around the apartment block where he lived, and feeding them captive mice.
They apparently included one Varanus douarrha, a newly discovered species of monitor lizard, with black skin and white-yellow stippling that, at times, appeared to gleam bronze.
They apparently included one Varanus douarrha, a newly discovered species of monitor lizard, with black skin and white-yellow stippling that, at times, appeared to gleam bronze.
The old man at the wheel was patiently waiting on a monitor lizard - four feet of shimmering silver from twitching tail to flickering tongue - to amble across the road.
