Board Thread:General Discussions/@comment-1589955-20141122220435/@comment-1426621-20141123005846

The general case on Varan is he originates from Japan while the Tuatara is native to New Zealand, aside these geographies their family relation is distant as Varan is of the varanidae family which doesn't include the Tuatara. I suppose the best guest of Varan is to be a Monitor Lizard from the Philippines (which is the closest to the range near seas of Japan to say the least). It might be possible that one such Monitor Lizard native to islands was hit with atomic radiation during the World War II battles on the island. If anything the best descripition of Varan would be the Gray's monitor or the Water monitors seeing in on Varan's ecology.