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New lizard species escapes extinction

October 30, 2012by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

Sometimes you discover something in the last place you’d expect. Like a new species near a housing development. Researchers from Australian National University happened upon the coastal plains skink, Ctenotus ora, […]

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