When French kayaker Nouria Newman was walking her kayak to the water on the banks of the Ganges River in northern India and it felt it a bit heavy than usual, she chalked it up to being tired and went on with her day.
After 20km of paddling, she felt something on her leg and it wasn’t her water bottle. She let out an instinctive scream and when she pulled her skirt all she saw was massive tail in the nose of her kayak. She pulled over to figure out what exactly was stowed away in her boat and was shocked at what she found.
Unconfirmed but it looks like the reptile was an Asian Water Monitor which is widely considered to be the second largest lizard species, after the Komodo dragon. If you suffer from herpetophobia (fear of reptiles) this is a nightmare scenario.
