Why are some groups of animals so diverse?

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A new study by researchers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology on finger-sized Australian lizards sheds light on one of the most striking yet largely unexplained patterns in nature: why some groups of animals have evolved into hundreds, even thousands of species, while other groups include only a few.

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