The castaway: New monitor lizard fills top-order predator role on remote Pacific island
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 23:50
in Biology & Nature
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.