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DearMoogle
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I like the soft dyed-in look. I’m thinking it’s old museum merch maybe? All I’m seeing online are replicas
Pictured here is Brookesia nana, discovered in 2021 in Madagascar
Photo by Frank Glaw (herpetologist)
Measuring just shy of 14 millimetres, B. nana can perch cozily on an aspirin tablet.
For nine years, Brookesia micra, a cousin of B. nana described in 2012, clung to the title of tiniest chameleon. B. nana is smaller than B. micra in body size, measured from snout to cloacal opening at the base of the tail. But it sports a longer tail. Differences in how size is determined make it complicated to definitively claim that a species is the planet’s littlest.
Read more here: https://india.mongabay.com/2021/03/newly-described-chameleon-from-madagascar-may-be-worlds-smallest-reptile/
True! I’ll edit the title;)