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Finding when and where termites originated
May 19, 201519 May 2015 NUS professors have discovered termites evolved from cockroaches 170 million years ago, probably in Africa or Asia….
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19 May 2015 NUS professors have discovered termites evolved from cockroaches 170 million years ago, probably in Africa or Asia….
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“We have barely scratched the surface of Timor-Leste’s biodiversity. New discoveries can have profound impacts on conservation and policy-making.”
In August 2022, we led an expedition to Timor-Leste in collaboration with Conservation International and the government of Timor-Leste. The Museum’s herpetologist, Dr CHAN Kin Onn, discovered a new species of bent-toed gecko which was named Cyrtodactylus santana, in reference to the Nino Konis Santana National Park, in which the gecko was discovered.
