For more than 180 years, several soft-nosed chameleons from Madagascar sat together in a single species complex (Calumma nasutum) until scientists decided to take a closer look.They disentangled ...

Researchers discovered the brilliantly colored rainbow chameleon, now named Calumma uetzi, during an expedition to the remote Sorata massif in northern Madagascar in 2012. Over surveys between ...

And Calumma juliae is named for Julia Forster, who helped to collect some of the specimens. The species has been found so far only in a 0.15-square kilometre patch of forest, which the authors say ...