New species of chameleon where the males have unusually large genitals for sex with bigger females is discovered.
A new miniature species of chameleon where the male is much smaller but has unusually large genitals in order to have sex with the much larger female has been discovered during a recent research expedition in Madagascar.
An international team of researchers, led by the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (ZSM-SNSB) from the German city of Munich, discovered the bizarre chameleon in the North of Madagascar, East Africa.
The discovery was announced on Thursday and published in the open-access Journal of Scientific Reports.
The joint team of scientists named the new species Brookesia nana.
With a body size of just 13.5 mm (0.53 inches), this Nano-Chameleon (Brookesia nana) is the smallest known male of the roughly 11,500 known reptile species.
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