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Dragon's Paradise Lost: Palaeobiogeography, Evolution and Extinction of the Largest-Ever Terrestrial Lizards (Varanidae)

BACKGROUND: The largest living lizard species, Varanus komodoensis Ouwens 1912, is vulnerable to extinction, being restricted to a few isolated islands in eastern Indonesia, between Java and Australia, where it is the dominant terrestrial carnivore. Understanding how large-bodied varanids responded...

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Autores principales: Hocknull, Scott A., Piper, Philip J., van den Bergh, Gert D., Due, Rokus Awe, Morwood, Michael J., Kurniawan, Iwan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2748693/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19789642
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007241