Some (myself included) believe that Mušḫuššu, the side-kick of the Sumerian/Babylonian god Marduk, was inspired by a monitor. Mušḫuššu was sometimes described as a beautiful serpent - but serpent wasn't exclusively legless snakes. +
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It's highly likely that a now-extinct relative of the Nile Water Monitor once lived in the now-drained marsh where the Tigris and Euphrates met. Reports of such a monitor exist all the way up through the 1980s although no zoological specimen exists. Habitat was right though.
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