http://tinyurl.com/lkxon3t A bustling airport would hardly seem the place to find a new species of reclusive animal, but a team of California biologists recently found a shy new species of legless lizard living at the end of a runway at Los Angeles International Airport.
What's more, the same team discovered three additional new species of these distinctive, snake-like lizards that are also living in some inhospitable-sounding places for wildlife: at a vacant lot in downtown Bakersfield, among oil derricks in the lower San Joaquin Valley and on the margins of the Mojave desert.
They shut down beaches at Camp Pendleton, making the Marines practice amphibious landings elsewhere. They shut down highway projects for three fish-like things in a puddle. The very leasst they can do is shut down California to protect these (and all the other undiscovered) lizards lurking there.
stay safe.
