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Lizards threatened by warming

Climate change could wipe out one species in five, researchers say

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

As many as one in five species of the world’s lizards could go extinct by 2080 because they can’t take the heat of climate change, an international research team reports.

HERE TODAY The great desert skink (Liopholis kintorei) is disappearing in spots where it used to live around Australia’s Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park.