World’s Tiniest Lizard
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 5th, 2008
I mentioned here on Sunday night the discovery of the world’s smallest snake. The discoverer is Blair Hedges, Ph. D., of Penn State.
Boing boing’s David Pescovitz points out that:
“Evolutionary biologist Blair Hedges has great luck with tiny herps. In 2001, he co-discovered the world’s smallest lizard on an island off the coast of the Dominican Republic.”
Sphaerodactylus ariasae
Hedges and Richard Thomas, a biologist at the University of Puerto Rico, discovered small groups of the new lizard species living in a sink hole and a cave in a partially destroyed forest on the remote island of Beata, which is part of the Jaragua National Park in the Dominican Republic.
Sometimes it really is a small world.
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Thats a gecko not a lizard, very different species.
Of course, all geckos are lizards, but not all lizards are geckos.
Wait, this is starting to sound like the SATs…
My head hurts!
Thanks for bringing us these stories, Loren. I am amazed (and more than a little creeped out) by these diminutive species.
He found the world’s smallest frog too.