Giant lizard breeding programme halts species’ decline

09/01/12 14:51 CET

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It was once thought that the Hierro giant lizard had gone the way of the dodo. The reptile, which can grow to more than half a metre in length, appeared to have disappeared from the tiny Canary Island of El Hierro in the 1930s.

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