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Photographing Australia’s desert reptiles

By AG STAFF • 18 April 2018

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In the upcoming issue of Australian Geographic photographers Ross McGibbon and Tim Squires search for one of the world’s most dangerous snakes: the western desert taipan. But they managed to photographic some of our favourite desert reptiles along the way.

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