| 10/02/2010 | Animal Tracks | 577 of 848 |      |
| A Varanus bitatawa, pictured in 2009 in the Philippines. Scientists reported on the “spectacular” discovery a previously unknown species of fruit-eating lizard as big as a full-grown man. Astonished researchers found the secretive but brightly-coloured beast, a close cousin of the fearsome Komodo Dragons of Indonesia, in a hard-to-reach river valley of northern Luzon Island in the Philippines. |
