WORLD’S SMALLEST VERTEBRATE JARAGUA LIZARD Sphaerodactylus ariasae © S.B. Hedges At just 16 mm (.6″) from nose to tail, the Jaragua lizard is the world's smallest. In fact, it's the smallest vertebrate that can reproduce on dry land.The newly discovered lizard lives on Isla Beata, a small, forest-covered island in the Caribbean off the Dominican Republic. Blair Hedges, an evolutionary biologist at Pennsylvania State University, together with Richard Thomas of the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, found the lizard in three sites, including one at the very southern tip of mainland Dominica. The researchers believe the lizard lives only in these areas. Source
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