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Friday, November 27, 2009

Mouth of discovery

A new species of chameleon was discovered in an African forest living in the mouth of a snake. The tiny lizard came out of the mouth of a twig snake disturbed by Dr Andrew Marshall in Tanzania's Magombera forest.
He said, "I was doing conservation research when I came across this snake.
It saw me and fled, and as it did so spat out a chameleon. I took photos and showed them to a local herpetologist, who instantly recognised that it was a new species.''
The creature, small enough to sit in the palm of a hand, was named as Kinyongia magomberae by scientists.

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