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Old 17th January 2013, 12:45 AM   #26
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Originally Posted by Miss_Kitt View Post
.........Of the true cryptids, I have to think that a whopping huge goanna (spelling?) in the Outback would be the most likely. The Aborigines claim there are big ones out there, or were in their grandfathers' time anyway. ........
There is already a huge goanna (monitor lizard), well known in the outback. The perentie. It is big, up to 8 feet long, and big enough to take down adult kangaroos (and it has a poisonous bite, too). There are rumours of examples up to 11 or 12 feet long, but no evidence, indeed, there is plenty of evidence that 8' is the exception.

Is this not what you were talking about, or are you thinking of some altogether bigger creature, like the 5.5m long megalania, which used to live there and was extant when the aboriginals arrived?

Mike

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