The discovery of a new animal in Australia… Could be the last one on the continent.
Australia is famous for its distinctive creatures, many of which are exclusively inhabited by the giant island, and today a new animal, on an uninhabited island, of Australia, has been declared.
According to the British newspaper The Guardian, a new type of lizard, like a little dragon, was discovered with a pointy face and a leaf-shaped thorny tail on an uninhabited island in Queensland.
Professor Assok Conrad Hoskin, Earthbiologist at James Cook University, encountered the lizard in a “deep rock home covered in figs and sargas,” during a four-day survey of the island.
He said, “It’s so exciting, it’s the dream of every living scientist to find a new kind of animal.”
Hoskin named the animal Veloros Vimberiatos, a scientific name indicating the tips of the thorn around the lizard’s tail.
New meat-eating reptiles are about 15 cm long from nose to tail.
Hoskin said: “These lizards with paper tails look like bouldered rocks but have little white lines on their tail.”
He added: “Really very smooth for a paper tail, which is usually more intense… He’s got a really special look. “A big face and a nice pointy mouth.”
He described the new lizard world as “a little dragon or something.”
The paper-tailed lizard found on Scoville Island may be one of the last outstanding vertebrates to be found in Australia.
He said, “It’s so exciting, it’s the dream of every living scientist to find a new kind of animal.”
Hoskin named the animal Veloros Vimberiatos, a scientific name indicating the tips of the thorn around the lizard’s tail.
New meat-eating reptiles are about 15 cm long from nose to tail.
Hoskin said: “These lizards with paper tails look like bouldered rocks but have little white lines on their tail.”
He added: “Really very smooth for a paper tail, which is usually more intense… He’s got a really special look. “A big face and a nice pointy mouth.”
He described the new lizard world as “a little dragon or something.”
The paper-tailed lizard found on Scoville Island may be one of the last outstanding vertebrates to be found in Australia.
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