{"id":42,"date":"2011-05-09T09:24:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T09:24:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-06-26T11:16:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T11:16:48","slug":"megalania","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.big-animals.com\/fr\/megalania\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Megalania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"gts_text_1\" class=\"gts_text\">Le Megalania est le plus grand <a title=\"L\u00e9zards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.big-animals.com\/fr\/lezards\/\" target=\"_blank\">l\u00e9zard<\/a>\u00a0terrestre de tous les temps.<\/span> <span id=\"gts_text_2\" class=\"gts_text\">C&#8217;\u00e9tait en fait\u00a0une sorte de varan\u00a0g\u00e9ant.\u00a0Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9couvert dans le sud de\u00a0l&#8217;<\/span><span id=\"gts_text_3\" class=\"gts_text\">Australie.<\/span> <span id=\"gts_text_4\" class=\"gts_text\">Il a disparu il y a environ 40 000 ans.<\/span> <span id=\"gts_text_5\" class=\"gts_text\">Les premiers colons aborig\u00e8nes en Australie ont probablement vu des Megalania vivant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"gts_text_6\" class=\"gts_text\">Il n&#8217;y a pas de\u00a0fossile complet du Megalania.<\/span> <span id=\"gts_text_7\" class=\"gts_text\">Par cons\u00e9quent, il est difficile de d\u00e9terminer\u00a0\u00e0 quel point ils \u00e9taient\u00a0grands.<\/span> <span id=\"gts_text_8\" class=\"gts_text\">On estime que le Megalania mesurait\u00a0environ 7 m\u00e8tres de long (23 pieds) et pesait environ 600 &#8211; 620 kilogrammes (1320-1360 livres).<\/span> On peut voir<span id=\"gts_text_9\" class=\"gts_text\">\u00a0un cr\u00e2ne de Megalania d&#8217;environ 74 centim\u00e8tres (29 pouces) de long au\u00a0mus\u00e9e des Sciences de\u00a0Boston.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_575\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-575\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.big-animals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Megalania_And_Human.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-575\" title=\"Pour Megalania, un humain ne serait pas plus qu'un casse-cro\u00fbte !\" src=\"http:\/\/www.big-animals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Megalania_And_Human-300x71.png\" alt=\"Pour Megalania, un humain ne serait pas plus qu'un casse-cro\u00fbte !\" width=\"300\" height=\"71\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pour le Megalania, un \u00eatre humain ne serait qu&#8217;un encas\u00a0!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span id=\"gts_text_10\" class=\"gts_text\">Le Megalania se nourrissait\u00a0d&#8217;animaux, parfois de grandes tailles\u00a0comme les grands <a title=\"Les plus grands marsupiaux du monde !\" href=\"http:\/\/www.big-animals.com\/fr\/les-plus-grands-marsupiaux-du-monde\/\" target=\"_blank\">marsupiaux<\/a> comme le <a title=\"Le Diprotodon - le plus grand toujours marsupial !\" href=\"http:\/\/www.big-animals.com\/fr\/le-diprotodon-le-plus-grand-marsupial-du-monde\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Diprotodon<\/em><\/a>.<\/span> <span id=\"gts_text_11\" class=\"gts_text\">Il chassait \u00e9galement\u00a0des reptiles, des petits mammif\u00e8res, des oiseaux, leurs oeufs et des poussins.<\/span> <span id=\"gts_text_12\" class=\"gts_text\">Il\u00a0avait des\u00a0membres \u00e9normes et un corps \u00e9norme.<\/span> <span id=\"gts_text_13\" class=\"gts_text\">Sur son cr\u00e2ne, on peu\u00a0voir une petite cr\u00eate au dessus et entre les yeux et une m\u00e2choire remplies\u00a0de dents en forme de\u00a0scie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"gts_text_14\" class=\"gts_text\">Il est probable que le Megalania avait\u00a0des glandes de venin le long de sa m\u00e2choire.<\/span> <span id=\"gts_text_15\" class=\"gts_text\">Ainsi, lors d&#8217;une attaque, le venin aurait tu\u00e9 la victime.<\/span> <span id=\"gts_text_16\" class=\"gts_text\">Bien que le Megalania soit \u00e9norme, il\u00a0mangeait moins de nourriture qu&#8217;un mammif\u00e8re de m\u00eame taille.<\/span> <span id=\"gts_text_17\" class=\"gts_text\">S&#8217;il est vrai que le Megalania avait du\u00a0venin, cela ferait de lui\u00a0le plus grand vert\u00e9br\u00e9 venimeux de tous les temps.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Megalania est le plus grand l\u00e9zard\u00a0terrestre de tous les temps. C&#8217;\u00e9tait en fait\u00a0une sorte de varan\u00a0g\u00e9ant.\u00a0Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9couvert dans le sud de\u00a0l&#8217;Australie. Il a disparu il y a environ 40 000 ans. Les premiers colons aborig\u00e8nes en Australie ont probablement vu des Megalania vivant. Il n&#8217;y a pas de\u00a0fossile complet du Megalania. Par &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.big-animals.com\/fr\/megalania\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Le Megalania<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.big-animals.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.big-animals.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.big-animals.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.big-animals.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.big-animals.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.big-animals.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/www.big-animals.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.big-animals.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}