Madagascar has developed its own distinct ecosystems and extraordinary wildlife since it split from the African continent an ...

At the end of April, a team of researchers scouring a scarred area of spiny forest in southwestern Madagascar came across ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have identified Earth's smallest known reptile, warning at the same time that sustained destruction of forests in northern Madagascar threatens its survival. Tiny enough to perch ...

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 ...