A juvenile Labord's chameleon navigates a dry forest in Madagascar. The reptile lives less than five months, the shortest life span of a four-legged vertebrate. Photograph By CHRISTIAN ZIEGLER ...

Geologists think Madagascar, the planet's fourth-largest island, has been isolatedfor about 90 million years. Because Scantlebury's study focused on diverse groups of reptiles and amphibians that ...

Though little is known about these tiny chameleons, Glaw and Hawlitschek said they assume the reptiles are critically endangered due to massive deforestation in the Sorata region of Madagascar ...

The islands and atolls of the western Indian Ocean once teemed with giant tortoises that weighed as much as 600 pounds and ...

Scientists believe they may have discovered the smallest reptile on earth - a chameleon ... by a German-Madagascan expedition team in Madagascar. The male Brookesia nana, or nano-chameleon ...

Late Permian Period reptile Coelurosauravus elivensis (C ... between 252 million to 260 million years ago in present-day Madagascar, and used a patagium (thin membranes extending from its torso ...

Finding such a small reptile raises interesting questions about ... the astonishing—and highly threatened—biodiversity of Madagascar. Scientists suspect the chameleon will soon be listed ...

A reptile found in Madagascar is impossible to tell apart from tree bark by day. For decades, scientists had mixed it up with a relative. By Sofia Quaglia As night falls on the northern forests of ...

From the world’s largest sea turtles to a blind species of snake found only in Madagascar, the diversity of EDGE Reptiles is breath-taking.” The color-changing Round Island keel-scaled boa ...

Frank Glaw (SNSB / ZSM) Researchers discovered what may be the smallest reptile on the planet in the rainforests of northern Madagascar, reports Jason Bittel for National Geographic. The new ...