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• n  any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles

• monitor
• varan

News & Articles

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• Lost World Locked in Stone at Fossil Lake
  With just two inhabited buildings and a population of five, Fossil, Wyo., is all but a ghost town today. But as far as ghosts go, the ones at Fossil are pretty remarkable — 50-million-year-old monitor lizards, stingrays and freakishly long-tailed turtles among them.
  June 10, 2013 - LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News
• Lost World Found in Fossils
  With just two inhabited buildings and a population of five, Fossil, Wyo., is all but a ghost town today. But as far as ghosts go, the ones at Fossil are pretty remarkable 50-million-year-old monitor lizards, stingrays and freakishly long-tailed turtles among them.
  June 10, 2013 - Fox News
• 4-foot monitor lizard on the loose in Decatur
  Some Decatur residents are on alert after a 4-foot long monitor lizard was spotted in their neighborhood.
  June 7, 2013 - FOX 5 Atlanta