What is being measured?
Comparison uses the midpoint of the Australian Museum’s 3.5–5 m reconstructed-size range. Published head-to-tail length range; source page uses the name Megalania prisca. This is a midpoint of an estimate range, not a measured living-animal mean.
The comparison uses the midpoint of the stated range. That midpoint is a chosen reference, not a measured population mean.
- Dimension
- reconstructed head to tail length
- Reference value
- 4.25 m
- Evidence
- Chosen midpoint of a documented range
- In metres
- 4.25 m
- Source range
- 3.5–5 m
- What the range means
- Published head-to-tail length range; source page uses the name Megalania prisca.
Put the length in perspective
One Megalania (Varanus priscus) represents approximately 49.6 card lengths measured end to end. This is a length ratio; it does not calculate how the objects pack or fit.
Megalania (Varanus priscus) · 4.25 m
Metre · 1 m
Foot (international) · 0.3048 m