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Post a photograph of your set-up. Even though you've always kept it the same way and always fed it the same things, to me it sounds like it is...

So do I, actually. I'm five minutes from the centre of the largest city in Australia. :) Sydney is unusual in that it is surrounded by national...

Sorry to hear about that. Have you figured out why?

Thanks! Over the years I've been posting photographs of these guys, plus a few others, on another forum but we're talking hundreds of photographs...

One of the things that rarely gets studied in most animals is longevity in the wild, mainly because it often involves time spans that go well...

What's the enclosure made out of? How long has the monitor been in there? How long has everything been out of the enclosure (hide spots etc)?

Having seen your setup, 'tame' is the least of your worries at this stage. Your choices are to either build a proper enclosure for that animal or...

If it will not take food from you it is either not ready from a security point of view (i.e. still too frightened, and not surprising given that...

Now I'm REALLY curious! And why is talking about evolution a bad thing for a reptile forum. I'm keen to find out what you find improbable about...

I don't really understand what you're getting at here, as long before Darwin visited the Galapagos, ships were stopping there to collect tortoises...

What you probably need is orangutans in your area, then, rather than frugivorous monitors. Durian is the favourite fruit of wild orangs. As...

Frugivorous monitors aren't a new discovery. The best known of the three species of closely-related frugivorous monitors is Varanus olivaceus,...

Post photographs of the setup before you get the next one and we'll be able to help you avoid this happening again.

Without photographs of the enclosure, we'll all just be guessing. You know the old saying 'a picture is worth a thousand words'? That applies...

I live in a country in which the keeping and breeding of all reptiles is under a licence system and I'm very much in favour of it. Introducing it...

These aren't as flattened as I've seen them, but a few wild lace monitors flattening out to get a bit of sun. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] This one...

My money is on there being very little smell, as they're beyond that. Once the egg contents become a congealed mass, there's a smell but it's...

My guess is when you dissect them they'll have a congealed yellowish mass filling up the entire space, as they were never viable. The eggs in the...

Not with monitor eggs. They're laid at a very undeveloped stage compared to a lot of other reptiles and consequently take longer for blood vessels...

As Rakoladycz has said, those eggs are highly unlikely to be viable (even the last two), but the bigger concern is that they've been laid over the...