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I walked 1,200km in the outback to track huge lizards. Here's why

Author: Sophie Cross, PhD candidate, Curtin University

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In 2017 and 2018 I walked the equivalent of 28 marathons in the scorching Western Australian outback. Why, you ask? To assess how some of Australia’s largest lizard species interact with restored mines.

As part of my PhD research, I hiked in often extreme heat on a mine site in WA’s sparsely populated Mid...

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