A team of scientists went looking for a tiny species of chameleon that is only the size of a golf tee (5.5 cm/2.2 inches long). They were afraid that this chameleon species – Chapman’s pygmy chameleon – might have gone extinct in its home country…
Imagine that you are walking through the forest as night falls. It is getting darker now and you can hear the sounds of insects. You also hear some strange noises, which you can’t identify. “What was that?”, you whisper under your breath. You decide to…
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The Komodo dragon is the largest living lizard, but do you know what the smallest lizard species is? A team of Madagascan and German herpetologists may have just described the smallest known lizard species, a chameleon named Brookesia nana. Brookesia nana is endemic (found only in) a small…