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MoonRiver

(36,926 posts) Mon Dec 30, 2013, 11:28 AM Dec 2013

Pinocchio Lizard - amazing little critter!

National Geographic "For a lizard with such a prominent protrusion, the Pinocchio lizard has proved to be quite elusive. First formally described by scientists in 1953, the species seemingly vanished several years later. But then, in 2005 a group of bird-watchers near Mindo, Ecuador, spotted one of the strange lizards walking across the road. After sharing the picture when they returned home, reptile researchers soon learned that the Pinocchio lizard was indeed still alive."