The surveys focused on a group of pygmy chameleons, also known as the Rhampholeon group. These small lizards usually live on the forest floor and “exhibit traits closely mimicking a dead leaf ...

The charity’s conservationists will work to safeguard the tiny Nguru spiny pygmy chameleon, which blends in with the leaf litter and lower vegetation of its montane forest habitat in Tanzania ...

They captured two animals and, after taking a closer look, realized they’d discovered a new species: Brookesia nofy, or the Nofy leaf chameleon. Nofy leaf chameleons are considered “very small ...