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Creature found in dark reaches of popular Australia tourist cave. It’s a new species

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Eburnocauda saxatilis is a new species of cave crickets found in Britannia Creek Cave in southeastern Australia .

Researchers caught the new species by hand during a survey of the cave in May .

The “medium-sized” crickets are about half of an inch long with patterned brown bodies and black eyes.