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Liasis dubudingala

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Liasis dubudingala

bluff downs giant python
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Description of species

  • Liasis dubudinala is the largest snake known from Australia, estimated to have been about 9 metres in length. The only known specimen of Liasis dubudinala was found at Bluff Downs in northeastern Queensland, and is Pliocene in age (about 4.5 million years old). A snake of this size may have taken juvenile diprotodontids, birds, reptiles and arboreal mammals, all common at Bluff Downs.
Photo by gtrwndr87

Existed in the Pliocene Epoch period.

habitat

  • The Bluff Downs region during the Pliocene was an extensive wetlands bordered by patches of closed forest, perhaps like the present-day Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory.

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