New species alert: There are dwarf dragons in the Andes

Where are your dragons? Probably in the Andes. Researchers have discovered three new species of woodlizards -- relatively large lizards resembling mini-dragons -- living in the Andean cloud-forests of Peru and Ecuador. They published their findings Monday in the journal ZooKeys. The three new species -- Enyalioides altotambo, Enyalioides anisolepis and Enyalioides sophiarothschildae -- brings the total number of known woodlizards to 15. That's quite a leap from less than 10 years ago, when study co-author Omar Torres-Carvajal was completing his post-doctoral work. At that time, there were just seven such woodlizards known to science. "They look like tiny dragons. That makes them really attractive for some people," Torres-Carvajal told The Post by phone. "They are, to me, one of the most wonderful lizards in South American forests." [The newest species of catfish is named after Greedo from ‘Star Wars’]READ MORE-http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/04/08/new-species-alert-there-are-dwarf-dragons-in-the-andes/