Ranking All Of The 7 Continents By Their Largest Lizard - From Smallest To Largest

Lizards can be found completely different ends of the food chain, with some being relatively small insect eaters, and other being giant apex predators that can even hunt man. In todays video we'll mostly be focusing on the latter, and there are many giants that inhabit some of the world's most competitive ecosystems. In today's video I'll be ranking each of the 7 continents by their largest lizard, but of course I won't be including invasive species. Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:45 Antarctica - No Lizards 1:34 Europe - Ocellated Lizard 3:33 South America - Galápagos land Iguana 6:40 North America - Blue Iguana 9:05 Oceania - Perentie 12:17 Africa - Black-Throated Monitor 14:19 Asia - Komodo Dragon Attributions: Earth map 250 million years ago: Scotese, Christopher R.; Vérard, Christian; Burgener, Landon; Elling, Reece P.; Kocsis, Ádám T. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY 4.0 European gecko images: Benny Trapp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europea... CC BY 3.0 Charles J. Sharp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarento... CC BY-SA 4.0 Stoyko Sabotanov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotschy... CC BY 4.0 Konstantinos Kalaentzis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediter... CC BY-SA 4.0 Caiman lizard images: Bernard DUPONT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracaen... CC BY-SA 2.0 Land iguana images: Anita Gould https://www.flickr.com/photos/anitago... CC BY-NC 2.0 Gould363 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_... CC BY-SA 4.0 Beaded lizard images: Daniel Ariano-Sánchez https://www.inaturalist.org/observati... CC BY 4.0 Rodrigo Arrazola https://www.inaturalist.org/observati... CC BY-NC 4.0 gisel_15 https://www.inaturalist.org/observati... CC BY-NC 4.0 Juan Ma Contortrix https://www.inaturalist.org/observati... CC BY-NC 4.0 Blue iguana images: Matt Reinbold https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 2.0 Charles J. Sharp https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 4.0 New Caledonian giant gecko images: Jebbles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhacoda... CC BY-SA 3.0 Lennart Hudel https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY 4.0 Tuatara images: Bernard Spragg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC0 1.0 Crocodile monitor images: cuatrok77 https://www.flickr.com/photos/cuatrok... CC BY-SA 2.0 Frilled lizard images: Matt https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY 2.0 Perentie images: James Boettcher FNQ Nature Tours https://www.inaturalist.org/observati... CC BY-NC 4.0 katewolny https://www.inaturalist.org/observati... CC BY-NC 4.0 Christopher Watson https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 3.0 Armadillo girdled lizard images: cndyntdhn - bdfhbdx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadil... CC BY-SA 4.0 Kevin Murray https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY 4.0 Black throated monitor images: David Williams https://www.inaturalist.org/observati... CC BY-NC 4.0 Sailfin lizard images: Amirudin Agus Nursalim https://www.inaturalist.org/observati... CC BY-NC 4.0 Andi Siady Hamzah https://www.inaturalist.org/observati... CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Doug Whitman https://www.inaturalist.org/observati... CC BY-NC 4.0 Martin Walsh https://www.inaturalist.org/observati... CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 I have edited and adapted some of these clips and images. Creative commons licences: https://creativecommons.org/share-you... Thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed :) Sources: https://www.sci.news/paleontology/ant... https://tvpworld.com/79915719/worlds-... https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wil...