The Independent Weekly (Free subscription) | yesterday
''It's a revolution in natural history in Australia,'' said the Queensland Museum paleontologist Scott Hocknull. ''The last decade has seen an unprecedented number of new dinosaur discoveries in Australia. Children no longer need to learn about North American dinosaurs to fuel their appetite for the beasts. Now they only need to look in their own backyard.''
The Scientific View (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
... fossils to the bones of present-day Komodo dragons, they were identical," said researcher Scott Hocknull, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Queensland Museum in Australia. For the last 4 million years, Australia has been home to the world's largest lizards, including the 16-foot-long giant (5 meters) called Megalania, once the world's largest terrestrial lizard but which died...
Cryptozoology Online: Daily News (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
... fossils to the bones of present-day Komodo dragons, they were identical," said researcher Scott Hocknull, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Queensland Museum in Australia. For the last 4 million years, Australia has been home to the world's largest lizards, including the 16-foot-long giant (5 meters) called Megalania, once the world's largest terrestrial lizard but which died...
MSNBC.com: Science (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
... these fossils to the bones of present-day Komodo dragons, they were identical," said researcher Scott Hocknull, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Queensland Museum in Australia. For the last 4 million years, Australia has been home to the world's largest lizards, including the 16-foot-long giant (5 meters) called Megalania, once the world's largest terrestrial lizard but which died...
MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
... these fossils to the bones of present-day Komodo dragons, they were identical," said researcher Scott Hocknull, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Queensland Museum in Australia. For the last 4 million years, Australia has been home to the world's largest lizards, including the 16-foot-long giant (5 meters) called Megalania, once the world's largest terrestrial lizard but which died...
Live Science (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
... these fossils to the bones of present-day Komodo dragons, they were identical," said researcher Scott Hocknull, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Queensland Museum in Australia. For the last 4 million years, Australia has been home to the world's largest lizards, including the 16-foot-long giant (5 meters) called Megalania, once the world's largest terrestrial lizard but which died...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
... to the world's largest lizards, including a five-meter giant called Megalania (Varanus prisca), Scott Hocknull of the Queensland Museum said.
Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
WASHINGTON - A team of palaeontologists and archaeologists, who studied fossil evidence from Australia, Timor, Flores, Java and India, has shown that Komodo Dragons most likely evolved in Australia around 3-4 million years ago and dispersed westward to Indonesia. According to study author Scott Hocknull, Senior Curator of Geosciences at the Queensland Museum, Australia is a [...]
Science - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
"The fossil record shows that over the last four million years Australia has been home to the world's largest lizards, including a five-meter giant called Megalania (Varanus prisca)," Scott Hocknull of the Queensland Museum said. "Now we can say Australia was also the birthplace of the three-meter Komodo dragon, dispelling the long-held scientific hypothesis that it evolved from a smaller...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
... of Timor, is published September 30 in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE.Author Scott Hocknull, Senior Curator of Geosciences at the Queensland Museum, said Australia is a hub for lizard evolution."The fossil record shows that over the last four million years Australia has been home to the world's largest lizards, including a five meter giant called Megalania (Varanus...
