Other lizards, like the green anole ... Southern Europe (southern Spain and Crete), Madagascar, Seychelles, Comoros, and Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan) suggests that the evolutionary radiation ...

in Madagascar. The tiny animals, which are less than an inch long as adults, are among the smallest known lizards in the world. One species is Brookesia tristis—Latin for “sad” or “sorrowful”—which ...

The lizard launched. Hery Rakotondravony's arm fired out. Moments later the young herpetologist uncurled his fingers. "I think this is a new species." In the few days we'd spent in Madagascar's ...

Have you ever seen a giraffe-necked weevil? An octopus tree? The three-cornered palm? Madagascar has lizards that scream, giant cockroaches that hiss, and trees that hold 200 gallons of water in ...