Scientists: Lizard, Ancestor of Komodo dragon
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Jumat, 19 Oktober 2018 22:55 WIB
TEMPO.CO, California - Scientists believe that komodo dragons evolved from much smaller size than plant-eater lizards. The global warming have turned them into giant reptiles, and most likely to occur again.
Fossils of a giant lizard discovered in Burma have led scientists to believe that rise in temperature 40 million years ago caused the lizards to grow to the size of 10-feet dragons, larger than komodo dragons.
Daily Mail cited "Scientists previously thought that large meat-eating dragons grew larger than their herbivore cousins because of a lack of predators."
The findings from the University of California and University of Nebraska-Lincoln suggested that a warmer climate, like in global warming, is needed for large lizards to grow.
Fossils of the giant lizard were originally discovered in Burma by scientists from University of Iowa and Duke University in the 1970s, yet paleontologists from University of Nebraska-Lincoln only recently began studying them.
The lizard king was named Barbaturex morrisoni, which means 'Bearded Morrison', after The Doors' frontman Jim Morrison.
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