New 'Moby Dick' lizard species found in Madagascar

Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 18:00 in Biology & Nature

A new lizard species has been discovered in Madagascar and named "Moby Dick" mermaid skink—after the albino sperm whale imagined by Herman Melville—for its flipper-like forelimbs and unpigmented skin, France's National Centre for Scientific Research said Tuesday.

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