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Old 02-24-2016, 11:20 PM   #1
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The castaway: New monitor lizard fills top-order predator role on remote Pacific isla

Separated by several hundred kilometers from its next of kin, a new blue-tailed monitor lizard unique to the remote Mussau Island has been described. Given a Latin name meaning 'isolated,' it is the only large-sized land-living predator and scavenger on the small Pacific island.



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