A previously unknown species of lizard was discovered in Borneo by Chris Austin, assistant curator of herpetology at Louisiana State University’s Museum of Natural Science. The scientific name ...

New Species Of Lizard Found In Borneo. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2006 / 12 / 061211221129.htm. Louisiana State University.

On May 30, 2008, a research team armed with GPS units, notebooks, and binoculars set out into a dense patch of jungle in Indonesian Borneo. An oil palm company had commissioned them to survey the ...

Are zoos inadvertently complicit in wildlife trade? The case of a rare Borneo lizard. Pensoft Publishers. Journal Nature Conservation DOI 10.3897/natureconservation.44.65124. Keywords ...

Lanthonotus borneensis Steindachner—the Borneo earless monitor lizard (which forms, with two American lizards, the family Helodermatidae) is known from less than ten specimens, all from Sarawak ...

The far-ranging impacts of Borneo’s vast palm oil industry are well known, from the extinction of the orangutan to the destruction of the once pristine rainforest. Yet far less is understood ...

And now, all over North Borneo, cats that ate the lizards died from DDT poisoning. Then rats moved in because there were no cats to control their population. With the rats came a new danger: plague.

Enviros win Bornean lizard ESA verdict date. By Michael Doyle | 09/13/2024 01:25 PM EDT . The federal government also agreed to pay the Center for Biological Diversity $14,432 in attorneys’ fees ...

On a May morning in 2008, a team of biologists doing some fieldwork in Borneo sat down to eat their lunch, only to notice a visitor in their midst. An odd lizard, partially concealed in some leaf ...

An obscure lizard reveals how zoos may indirectly play a role in animal trafficking. Accredited U.S. and European zoos keep earless monitor lizards.