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- Australian Monitors - Overview and pictures of monitors native to Australia.
- 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.
- Family Varanidae - Information about monitor lizards from the Animal Diversity Web. Descriptions, taxonomy and pictures.
- Family Varanidae - Checklist of the living monitor lizards of the world by Wolfgang Böhme. [PDF]
- Fossil Monitor Lizards - About the fossil history of varanid (monitor) lizards.
- The History of Monitor Lizards - Article by Daniel Bennett about the fossil history.
- Honolulu Zoo - Monitor Lizards - Physical characteristics, behavior, diet, reproduction and growth of Monitor lizards.
- 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.
- Oakland Zoo - Information about the White-Throated Monitor (Varanus albigularis).
- Philippine Wildlife - About the several species of monitors that live in the Philippines.
- Varanidae - Pictures and descriptions of several Monitor species by John Sullivan on Wildherps.com.
- Varanus Photo Album - Images of many species of monitors.
- Varanus: The Pianka Lab Page - Varanus in the Great Victoria desert of Western Australia.
- Water Monitor (Varanus salvator) - Fact sheet on feeding, breeding, distribution, threats and the status in Singapore with photos and links.
- Wikipedia - Monitor lizard - Evolutionary overview and classification of the family Varanidae (Monitor lizards).
- 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. (November 28, 2005)
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