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Mysterious Fossil Found in Museum Storage Turned Out to Be a New, Extinct Lizard Species
Argentine black and white tegus (Salvator merianae) were brought to the United States in the 1990s by exotic pet traders. They've since proliferated in the wild and been deemed an invasive species. Bernard Dupont via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2. …