Quote Originally Posted by blackcrystal22 View Post
In science, something that's only a few years old is actually extremely new news if it's accurate. Just because you have been aware of it does not mean it's circulated through the populous of herp informants and keepers yet.

They have also been working on proving that DNA is a triple helix up at Northwestern Illinois U for over ten years, and spent a few billion dollars on it. But many people don't seem to 'know' something that's been going on for quite a while now.
You're trying to say that the failure of Steve down at the Chevy dealership to know about the discovery of a triple helix is the same thing as a supposed varanid enthusiast not knowing about several year old varanid specific information on a varanid specific message section of a message board. It's apples and oranges.

Anyway, for further reading, here's a more recent paper by Fry:
http://www.venomdoc.com/downloads/20...modo&Megalania

Rename the file with a .pdf extension to open.

Also, the older paper:
http://eebweb.arizona.edu/courses/Ec...mEvolution.pdf