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Did you know the smallest reptile in the world is as small as a sunflower seed? <\/p>

By BBC Wildlife Magazine\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 03 July 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The current smallest reptile is a chameleon called Brookesia nana. It is only 13.5mm in body length (tail not included) \u2013 as small as a sunflower seed. the tiny reptile is brown in colour and unlike many other chameleon is unable to change colour<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 The species was discovered in 2021 in northern Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n<p>Until recently, the world record holder for the teeniest lizard was a Caribbean gecko called the Jaragua dwarf gecko. It comes in at 16-18mm (again, tail not included) and lives in the leaf litter on the forest floor \u2013 a habitat that seems to be common for micro lizards.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Main image \u00a9 Frank Glaw, J\u00f6rn K\u00f6hler, Oliver Hawlitschek, Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Mark D. Scherz & Miguel Vences, CC BY 4.0 <https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Did you know the smallest reptile in the world is as small as a sunflower seed? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":30036,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/07\/whats-the-smallest-reptile.jpg",1696,1066,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/07\/whats-the-smallest-reptile-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/07\/whats-the-smallest-reptile-300x189.jpg",300,189,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/07\/whats-the-smallest-reptile-768x483.jpg",768,483,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/07\/whats-the-smallest-reptile-1024x644.jpg",800,503,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/07\/whats-the-smallest-reptile-1536x965.jpg",1536,965,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/07\/whats-the-smallest-reptile.jpg",1696,1066,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Did you know the smallest reptile in the world is as small as a sunflower seed?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/30035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}