Brett-

I don't know about monitor lizards but Judy and I almost ran across (came to screeching halt) a large turtle on the short cut to Wiscasset the other day. It was about a foot and a half in diameter and weighed about 25 pounds. I got out and carefully picked it up, not being sure how far his neck might stretch, and dropped it off on the other side of the road where it appeared to be heading, perhaps to feast on the choir of peeping frogs in the pond there. It seemed rounder in general shape than the snapping turtles we sometimes see. I'll have to look up some pictures in a reference book but I bet it was even more ancient than you or me!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble