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In the News (Sat 28 Nov 09)

  
  Cryptozoology
Another recent example from the Canary Islands concerns the lizard Gallotia gomerana.
In June 1999 Spanish scientists reported finding six living specimens (two males, three females, and one juvenile) of this lizard on La Gomera, one of the Canary Islands.
Gallotia gomerana had previously been considered extinct for nearly five hundred years.
www.pibburns.com /cryptozo.htm   (8311 words)

  
 Found Cryptids - Real discoveries in Cryptozoology
These boar-like creatures were believed extinct until rediscovered in the 1970s.
The Gallotia gomerana lizard had been believed extinct for hundreds of years - then was discovered on the Canary Islands in 1999.
New species of hidden animals are being discovered all the time, that's what makes cryptozoology so interesting.
strange.myeyez.net /found-cryptids.shtml?1   (182 words)

  
 VR Lanzarote - your virtual tour guide to the Canary Island of Lanzarote
The fauna of Lanzarote is monotonously more than the plant world except for bats and other types of mammals which arrived with humans to the island including the dromedary which used for agriculture, since it fits its environmental conditions on the island.
Lanzarote also has 35 types of fauna including birds, falcons, reptiles such as the type of lizard, the Gallotia antica which is in endemic state and the Remipedia can be found in the Jameos del Agua lagoon, this crab is found in the depth of the water of several thousand metres.
The lagoon was created from a volcanic eruption into the cave and probably survives today.
www.vrlanzarote.com   (1211 words)

  
 The Integrative Ecology Group at Estación Biológica de Doñana
Valido, A., Nogales, M., Medina, F.M. (2003), Fleshy fruits in the annual diet of Canarian lizards Gallotia galloti (Lacertidae) in a xeric habitat of the island of Tenerife.
Nogales, M., Rando, J.C., Valido A. Martín A. (2001), Discovery of a new living giant lizard, genus Gallotia (Reptilia: Lacertidae) from La Gomera, Canary Islands.
Hernández, M., Maca-Meyer, N., Rando, J.C., Valido A. and Nogales, M. Addition of a new living giant lizard from La Gomera Island to the phylogeny of the endemic genus gallotia (Canarian Archipelago).
ieg.ebd.csic.es /ieg_publ.html   (1364 words)

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