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Researcher discovers new beetle that looks like bird poop
A researcher from The University of Queensland discovered the remarkable genus of fluffy longhorn beetle while camping within rainforest in the Gold Coast hinterland. The freshly named Excastra ...
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How a completely new species of beetle was accidentally discovered by a scientist on a Gold Coast bushwalk: 'Thought it was bird poop'
A scientist who was camping in a Gold Coast hinterland rainforest has discovered an incredible new species and genus of fluffy longhorn beetle. If finding a needle in a haystack is rare ...
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Newly discovered Australian beetle almost mistaken for bird poo
and covered in long, fluffy white hairs," he said ... any other species that it was declared an entirely new genus of longhorn beetles by the ANIC, officially called Excastra albopilosa ...