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30-09-2009 6:09pm#1New research indicates that the world's biggest lizard, the komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) originated in Australia, as opposed to Indonesia as previously thought, arriving some 3 or 4 million years ago.'Now we can say Australia was also the birthplace of the three-metre Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), dispelling the long-held scientific hypothesis that it evolved from a smaller ancestor in isolation on the Indonesian islands.
'Over the past three years, we've unearthed numerous fossils from eastern Australia dated from 300,000 years ago to approximately four million years ago that we now know to be the Komodo dragon.
'When we compared these fossils to the bones of present-day Komodo dragons, they were identical,' he said
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