A James Cook University biologist has discovered a new species of lizard on Scawfell Island, a remote island 50 km east of Mackay in north Queensland.

Questions have been raised over a three-week mission to locate and re-home three native skinks, at a cost of $85,000.

He said multiple island surveys and genetic tests were conducted over four years to confirm the skink was not found anywhere else in the world. Now identified and named, the Scawfell Island ...

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