Tiny chameleon a contender for title of smallest reptile

apnews.com ^ | February 7. 2021 | Associated Presstitutes

[Berlin_Freeper]

It fits on a human fingertip, but this chameleon could make a big splash.

Scientists from Madagascar and Germany say a newly discovered species of chameleon is a contender for the title of world’s smallest reptile.

Frank Glaw, who was part of the international team of researchers that classified the new species and named it Brookesia nana said the body of the male specimen appeared to be just 13.5-millimeters-long (a little more than a 1/2-inch.)

That’s at least 1.5 millimeters smaller than the previous record holder, another member of the Brookesia family.

Glaw, a reptile expert at the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology in Munich, said the tiny male and a slightly larger female were spotted on a mountainside by a local guide during a 2012 expedition.

[Larry Lucido]

A comma chameleon?

[Robert DeLong]

[fieldmarshaldj]

Ick. I can guess where they guy’s finger has been.

[fhayek]

I nominate Joseph R. Biden...

[heavy metal]

apparently they haven’t seen some of our republican politicians...

[Jamestown1630]

He’s been on his knees, searching for tiny reptiles.

Cute little critter. Has a sort of ‘turtle’ face...

[gundog]

Grubbing around, looking for chameleons?

[gundog]

I’d name him Booger.

[PghBaldy]

Smaller than Robert Reich?

[Jamestown1630]

He’s been on his knees, searching for tiny reptiles.

Cute little critter. Has a sort of ‘turtle’ face...

[gundog]

I think this is one of the chameleon species that hatch, breed, and die within a year.

[Jamestown1630]

(Sorry for the double-post. I was looking up our Western Maryland ‘Snallygaster’, and got confused...)

[whitney69]

Name? How about Wart?

wy69

[Sacajaweau]

When we went to Mexico, Chameleons were all over the place at night...slept with the light on.

Next morning at breakfast hubby snitched on me....except seems other two couples slept with their lights on, too.

[Ezekiel]

Boy George I think he's got it!

[TChad]

Cute, inexpensive to feed, and you can take it on a walk without leaving your chair. It’s a perfect pet.

[Jamestown1630]

I don’t mind chameleons.

(For Cucarachas I’d keep the lights on.)

[Salamander]

:(

[Varda]

Cute, I want one.