Further afield, the Soa Basin, which lies 50 km to the east of Liang Bua, has sites of Early and Middle Pleistocene age, where the remains of Komodo dragon and Stegodon ⦠75. Living monitors are known from warm areas of Africa, Asia, and Australia, but are also known from fossils throughout Europe. (2008) The youngest stegodon remains in Southeast Asia from the Late Pleistocene archaeological site Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia. best. A Komodo Dragon trying to retrieve a stegodon carcass from homo florensis. The most famous member, the Komodo dragon, is the largest living lizards. Stegodon may have looked superficially very familiar to us, but its direct ancestors lived even before Asian elephants, African elephants, and mammoths began their separate evolutionary journeys. 6 comments. Diamond JM (1987) Did Komodo dragons evolve to eat pygmy elephants? For example, the Komodo dragons may have eaten or scavenged pygmy elephants (Stegodon) (Auffenberg, 1981; Diamond, 1987). The Komodo dragon may have evolved to feed on the extinct dwarf elephant Stegodon that once lived on Flores, according to evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond. The Komodo dragon is the last of these giants, but within the last 2,000 years, their populations have diminished severely, most likely due to humans, and ⦠The Komodo dragon may have evolved to feed on the extinct dwarf elephant Stegodon that once lived on Flores, according to evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond. View Images ⦠Posted by 5 months ago. Quaternary International 182: 16â48. Without doubt, one of the coolest living animals on the planet is the Komodo dragon Varanus komodoensis, a giant flesh-eating lizard that kills water buffalo, ... (both Elephas and Stegodon⦠save hide report. Close. ... Stegodon, the âelephantâ with sideways trunk The cave hyenas of ice age Europe [41] The Komodo dragon drinks by sucking water into its mouth via buccal pumping (a process also used for respiration), lifting its head, and letting the water run down its throat. Without doubt, one of the coolest living animals on the planet is the Komodo dragon Varanus komodoensis, a giant flesh-eating lizard that kills water buffalo, ... (both Elephas and Stegodon⦠Sort by. They existed from 11 million years ago to as recently as 6,000 years ago in Asia, Africa and even North America. View Article Google Scholar 10. van den Bergh GD, et al. Stegodon sondaari is presumed to have died out about a million years ago, before the arrival of anything even vaguely human-like on Flores. share. There is some puzzlement about the still living Komodo dragon, named after the Indonesian island of Komodo, much smaller than Flores and immediately to its West. Log in or sign up to leave a comment log in sign up. Nature 326: 832. 96% Upvoted. A Komodo Dragon trying to retrieve a stegodon carcass from homo florensis. By 50,000 years ago, all traces of hobbit, stegodon, vulture, stork, and komodo dragon were gone from the cave,â Saptomo says.
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