Monday, May 05, 2008

You ain't never seen these before...

Breaking Animal News!

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.

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