Antelope, flying squirrel, goat, you thought you've seen it all. Sorry to blow your mind friendo, but new species were just recently discovered in Brazil.
Including a legless reptile (not a snake!), a "very cryptic" horned toad that's likely new to science, and the Stenocercus quinarius which scientists liken to a "miniature dragon".
More after the jump...
"The lizard—part of a separate evolutionary line from snakes—is one of 14 species believed new to science discovered on a four-week expedition to a 1.77-million-acre (716,000-hectare) protected area in the Cerrado (an extensive savanna shrubland mosaic and the largest ecoregion in the Americas--not to mention the sixth largest in the world. Across parts of southern Brazil, northeastern Paraguay, and eastern Bolivia)."
This comes courtesy of National Geographic.com.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10263531@N02/2471870720/sizes/o/
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