Web Directory

» Australian Monitors
   Overview and pictures of monitors native to Australia.
   http://www.kingsnake.com/oz/lizards/monitors/monitors.htm

» Black Tree Monitor (Varanus beccarii)
   Description, food, habitat, social structure and senses of this monitor native to the Aru Islands of the coasts of New Guinea.
   http://www.thebigzoo.com/Animals/Black_Tree_Monitor.asp

» Family Varanidae
   Checklist of the living monitor lizards of the world by Wolfgang Böhme.
   http://www.cites.org/common/cop/12/ESF12i-06A.pdf

» Fossil Monitor Lizards
   About the fossil history of varanid (monitor) lizards.
   http://www.fossilnews.com/1995/varanus.html

» Goanna Venom Rocks the Reptile Record
   Article about a discovery, made by a University of Melbourne-led team, that goannas and iguanas are venomous and share a common ancestor with snakes.
   http://uninews.unimelb.edu.au/view.php?articleID=3009

» Honolulu Zoo - Monitor Lizards
   Physical characteristics, behavior, diet, reproduction and growth of Monitor lizards.
   http://www.honoluluzoo.org/monitor_lizards.htm

» Megalania prisca
   Fossil found in the Naracoorte Caves in South Australia, an extinct Varanid that grew to as long as 5m (17 ft) and possibly weighed as much as 500kg.
   http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/parks/sanpr/naracoortecaves/ea6.html

» Oakland Zoo
   Information about the White-Throated Monitor (Varanus albigularis).
   http://www.oaklandzoo.org/meet_the_animals/white-throated-monitor

» The History of Monitor Lizards
   Article by Daniel Bennett about the fossil history.
   http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/sciences/Paleontology/Paleozoology/Fossilvertebrata/HistoryLizards/HistoryLizards.htm

» Varanidae
   Pictures and descriptions of several Monitor species by John Sullivan on Wildherps.com.
   http://www.wildherps.com/families/Varanidae.html

» Varanus Photo Album
   Images of many species of monitors.
   http://varanus.freeservers.com/album.html

» Varanus salvator cumingi
   Photograph, classification, distribution and description. In English and Dutch.
   http://members.home.nl/corrijskamp/animals%20specifications/varanus%20salvator%20cumingi.htm

» Varanus: The Pianka Lab Page
   Varanus in the Great Victoria desert of Western Australia.
   http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/index.html

» Water Monitor (Varanus salvator)
   Fact sheet on feeding, breeding, distribution, threats and the status in Singapore with photos and links.
   http://www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/verts/monitor_lizard.htm

» Wikipedia - Monitor lizard
   Evolutionary overview and classification of the family Varanidae (Monitor lizards).
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitor_lizard