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The smallest known reptile in the world can fit on your fingertip. It’s known as Brookesia nana, or “nano-chameleon,” and it’s a blotchy brown lizard that usually doesn’t surpass an inch ...
Officially known as Brookesia nana, or B. nana for short, the new species is so tiny it’s thought to survive on a diet of mites and springtails, which it hunts down in leaf litter.
The smallest Brookesia nana chameleon found so far is just 13.5-millimeters-long Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously ...
Tiny chameleon Brookesia nana may be the smallest reptile on Earth, but his genitalia is ‘quite large’ At a little over a centimetre, this little guy might be the smallest reptile on Earth.
Known as Brookesia nana, or the nano-chameleon, the petite species can perch on a fingertip and may have the smallest adult males of any vertebrate. The species was discovered in the northern ...
The male Brookesia nana, or nano-chameleon, has a body that is only 13.5 mm (0.53 inches) long, making it the smallest of all the roughly 11,500 known species of reptiles, the Bavarian State ...
The Brookesia nana male chameleon specimen had very large genitals for its small size. Frank Glaw, et al. There could be a very practical explanation for the reptile's relative endowment.
The new species, named Brookesia nofy after the Ankanin’ny Nofy tourist site where it was found on Madagascar's eastern coastline, is only slightly bigger at around 33 millimetres long. It is ...
The female Brookesia nana, however, measured 19.2 millimeters (0.75 inches) from snout to cloaca, which would make it larger than the females of the Sphaerodactylus ariasae species.
A Brookesia nofy, or Nofy leaf chameleon, perched on a person’s finger. Photo from Miguel Vences Like other chameleons, the new species can change color.
It’s known as Brookesia nana, or “nano-chameleon,” and it’s a blotchy brown lizard that usually doesn’t surpass an inch in body length. Before 2012, biologists didn’t know it existed.
The male Brookesia nana, or nano-chameleon, has a body that is only 0.53 inches long, making it the smallest of all the roughly 11,500 known species of reptiles. (Photo by Frank Glaw) Scientists ...