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Delcourt's Gecko
''Gigarcanum delcourti'', formerly ''Hoplodactylus delcourti'', is an extinct species of gecko in the Family (biology), family Diplodactylidae. It is List of largest extant lizards, the largest known of all geckos, with a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of and an overall length (including tail) of at least . It is only known from a single taxidermied specimen collected in the 19th century that was rediscovered unlabelled in a museum in France. The origin of the specimen was undocumented. While originally suggested to have been from New Zealand and the ''kawekaweau'' of Māori people, Māori oral tradition, DNA evidence from the specimen suggests that it originates from New Caledonia. History According to the report of Major W. G. Mair in 1873, in 1870, a Māori people, Māori chief said that he had killed a ''kawekaweau'' he found under the bark of a dead Metrosideros robusta, rātā tree in the Waimana, Waimana Valley in Te Urewera on the North Island of New Zealand. This is the only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lille Natural History Museum
Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department, and the main city of the Métropole Européenne de Lille, European Metropolis of Lille. The city of Lille proper had a population of 234,475 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of , but together with its French suburbs and exurbs the Lille metropolitan area (French part only), which extends over , had a population of 1,510,079 that same year (Jan. 2019 census), the fourth most populated in France after Paris, Lyon, and Marseille. The city of Lille and 94 suburban French municipalities have formed since 2015 the Métropole Européenne de Lille, European Metropolis of Lille, an Indirect election, indirectly elected Métropole, metr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
