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‘Large’ creature with ‘sharp’ claws found lurking under rocks. It’s a new species

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Researchers from Monash University in Australia discovered a new species of skink in a remote desert.

The new species is called Liopholis aputja, or the Central Ranges rock skink.

The skinks live in “rocky hills and gorges,” where they dig “burrow systems in the soil beneath boulders”.