Assertion: komodo dragon's size | /r/CreatedBy | the island gigantism
Facets:
value: in absence of other carnivores
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The size was initially attributed to the island gigantism – in absence of other carnivores the lizards had optimal conditions to grow, but recently researchers suggest that they remained the last representatives of a relict population of varanid lizards, inhabiting once Australia and Indonesia, which died in Pleistocene.