What is the heaviest lizard on Earth?

Komodo dragons correspond with their name! Being the heaviest lizards on our planet, they really resemble horrifying dragons from fairy-tales. Komodo Dragons reach 10 feet (3 meters) in length & weight more than 300 pounds (136 kilograms). They dwell on Indonesia's Lesser Sunda Islands for million of years, so they got used to its harsh and changeable dry climate.

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Grant McIntosh

Peter Holden, Good for you, but a crocodile is a semiaquatic reptile, not a lizard, so Komodo Dragon is correct. Of the four choices given, only the KD and the Monitor are lizards..

Samuel Miller

Well to begin with a Crocodile is not a Lizard! It's a seperate order sic species (whatever)! They are close [but no cigar]

littledick

Thanks for the picture; it was a dead giveaway. At any rate even for those who did not recognize the animal, they had a 50% chance of guessing correctly, since, I believe, the croc and giant tortoise are not lizards.

Sybilla

Poor choice of options as the Komodo dragon is also known as monitor lizard.

PlayerAlimary

The one whos not on a diet

mrboyers

Denis Sagendorf, the komodo is a monitor lizard.

Stephen Young

Misleading question with poor choices of answers.

parkertj

😜Damian F.,

maggie bennett

got it

Spencer

Repeat and also wrong answer.

Donna Smith

7/10 AMAZING QUIZ

lelin

Got it!

Don Racette

Cheryl McMeekin Not a lucky guess for me.

Todd Van Dell

joan musicmasters, Actually, Joan, I'm going to totally disagree with your assessment: "Spelt" may be ancient grain to YOU, but I not only still see it used quite frequently, even in 2019, I personally use it fairly often myself. Maybe not terribly surprisingly, I use it most frequently when correcting someone who might have spelled a word incorrectly. And usually I give the correct spelling of the word, often followed by "spelt thusly". I don't remember to include it all the time, but I don't consider it ancient grain myself. Then again, I also use the word in tandem or in concert with the word "thusly", which, at 58, makes me a bit of an old school grammarian anyway. (If it matters, I hold a Bachelor's Degree in Writing, so I'm not just talking through my hat.) You are certainly entitled not to use it if you so choose, but let's maybe not be too harsh or judgmental if some of us older folks still choose to use spelt from time to time. Just my two cents. ☺☺