New Species of Legless Lizard Discovered Near LAX Runway 103
From an article at Discovery News:
"A bustling airport would hardly seem the place to find a new species of reclusive animal, but a team of California biologists recently found a shy new species of legless lizard living at the end of a runway at Los Angeles International Airport. What’s more, the same team discovered three additional new species of these distinctive, snake-like lizards that are also living in some inhospitable-sounding places for wildlife: at a vacant lot in downtown Bakersfield, among oil derricks in the lower San Joaquin Valley and on the margins of the Mojave desert." Here's some more information in the form of a press release from Cal State Fullerton, home to James Parham, one of the discoverers.
Re:Kill them all! (Score:5, Insightful)
They are harbingers of the end times!!!
Or the harbinger of planes.
Found anywhere else than beside a very busy freight airport, you might be tempted to believe they have been there all along.
But finding Four new species right next to an airport (and as yet, nowhere else), you have to allow for the possibility that they
arrived in cargo.