Brookesia nana World s Smallest Reptile

In the Sorata massif, northern Madagascar, scientists discovered a new nanochameleon. The new species was named Brookesia nana and it might be the smallest reptile in the world. The male holotype has a snoutvent length of 13. 5 mm (total length 21. 6 mm), making it apparently the smallest mature male amniote ever recorded. The female paratype measures 19. 2 mm snoutvent length (total length 28. 9 mm). The new chameleon is only known from a degraded montane rainforest in northern Madagascar and might be thr