Researchers investigating the discovery of the spiky-haired specimen say nothing of its kind has been seen in Australia before.
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The insect, which measures less a centimetre in length, was stumbled upon by University of Queensland researcher James Tweed during a camping trip in Lamington National Park in the Gold Coast hinterland. "It wasn't until I started digging into it that I thought, 'This is something pretty special, something pretty different'."
Mr Tweed didn't arrive at that conclusion on his own — it took weeks of research and a trip to the CSIRO's Australian National Insect Collection for confirmation.) However, he said that much like the punk rockers of the 1970s, this type of beetle was most active at night and its hair could be a form of camouflage.
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