The castaway: New monitor lizard fills top-order predator role on remote Pacific island
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 11:00
in Biology & Nature
Separated by several hundred kilometres from its next of kin, a new species of blue-tailed monitor lizard unique to the remote Mussau Island has been described. Unknown to science until recently and formally termed the "isolated", it is the only large-sized land-living predator and scavenger native to the island.