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Lizard diversity

ESEARCHERS SPONSORED by your AG Society are using reptile scent to identify lizard species in outback Australia. PhD candidate Stephen Zozaya and Dr Conrad Hoskin, both from James Cook University, and volunteers spent two months catching the widespread Bynoe’s gecko, which they think may really be many distinct species. Stephen and Conrad are trying

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