Tag: desert ecology
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Garthia Geckos: Hidden Species Discovered in the Atacama Desert
Uncovering Hidden Biodiversity in one of the World’s Harshest Frontiers In Chile’s Atacama Desert, famed as the driest place on Earth, a tiny group of geckos is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about species diversity. A cutting-edge genomic study led by researchers including Kamryn Carter from the University of Wollongong (UOW) reveals that the…