A bird that hadn't ever been photographed or recorded was finally documented this summer in the remote reaches of a small island in Oceania, one of the top bird-watching destinations in the world. The ...

Mussau Island is one of the northernmost islands in Papua New Guinea. Not many animals make it out there, including biologists. That’s why this meter-long monitor lizard has been stalking the island ...

A meter-long, blue-tailed lizard had been stalking the Mussau Island in Papua New Guinea for 2 million years before being discovered. Not many animals live on the Pacific islands. Local animal ...

In June 2024, Joshua Bergmark led a group of birders through the forests of Mussau Island, the largest of the St. Matthias islands off the northeast coast of Papua New Guinea in the Bismarck ...

Separated by several hundred kilometres from its next of kin, a new species of blue-tailed monitor lizard unique to the remote Mussau Island has been described. Unknown to science until recently and ...

Researchers described Varanus semotus last week in the journal ZooKeys. A monitor lizard trekking around Mussau in northeastern Papua New Guinea reigns supreme as the remote island's top predator and ...

Researchers have discovered a new monitor lizard on the remote island of Mussau, which has a turquoise or blue-pigmented tail, and a pale yellow tongue, a trait that it shares with only three other ...

It’s been roaming a remote island undetected for more than a million years but now a new species of blue-tailed monitor lizard is finally in the spotlight. The castaway has been discovered by ...

The rarely glimpsed Mussau Triller was documented for the first time in 44 years on a remote island in Papua New Guinea. In June 2024, Joshua Bergmark led a group of birders through the forests of ...

It’s been roaming a remote island undetected for more than a million years but now a new species of blue-tailed monitor lizard is finally in the spotlight. The castaway has been discovered by ...