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...