Varanus sivalensis

{{short description|Largest species of lizard (extinct)}}

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| fossil_range = Pliocene to Pleistocene, {{fossil range|5.3|0.04}}

| name = Varanus sivalensis

| image = VaranusSivalensis.png

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| extinct = yes

| taxon = Varanus sivalensis

| authority = Falconer, 1858

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Varanus sivalensis, also known as the Indian Dragon, is a species of monitor lizard that originally lived in India in the Pinjor Formation during the Pliocene through the early Pleistocene.{{cite journal |last1=Hocknull |first1=Scott |last2=Piper |first2=Philip |last3=Van den Bergh |first3=Gert |last4=Due |first4=Rokus |last5=Morwood |first5=Michael |last6=Kurniawan |first6=Iwan |year=2009 |title=Dragon's Paradise Lost: Palaeobiogeography, Evolution and Extinction of the Largest-Ever Terrestrial Lizards (Varanidae) |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=4 |issue=9 |pages=e7241 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0007241|doi-access=free |pmid=19789642 |pmc=2748693 |bibcode=2009PLoSO...4.7241H |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26856417}} As its name implies, it was broadly comparable in size to the extant Komodo Dragon.