Amazing little dragon-like creatures discovered in the Andean cloud forests of Ecuador and Peru
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They look like tiny dragons. That makes them really attractive for some people.
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Researchers have discovered three new species of woodlizards — relatively large lizards resembling mini-dragons — living in the Andean cloud-forests of Peru and Ecuador.
The three new species — Enyalioides altotambo, Enyalioides anisolepis and Enyalioides sophiarothschildae — brings the total number of known woodlizards to 15. That’s quite a leap from less than 10 years ago, when study co-author Omar Torres-Carvajal was completing his post-doctoral work. At that time, there were just seven such woodlizards known to science.
Source: Washington Post