World's tiniest reptile found in Madagascar
Agence France-Presse
February 05, 2021
Scientists have identified Earth's smallest known reptile, warning at the same time that sustained destruction of forests in northern Madagascar threatens its survival.
Tiny enough to perch comfortably on a fingertip, the ultra-compact chameleon -- dubbed Brookesia nana -- has the same proportions and world-weary expression as its larger cousins around the world.
"We discovered it in the mountains of northern of Madagascar," Frank Glaw, curator of herpetology at the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, told AFP in an interview.
A joint expedition in 2012 of German and Malagasy scientists did not know whether the two specimens collected -- one female and one male -- were adults until much later, he explained.
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