LIMA, April 6 (UPI) -- In the Andes, dwarf dragons are scurrying across the forest floor in greater variety than previously thought. Researchers in Ecuador and Peru have located three new species of dragon-like woodlizards among the cloud forests of South America's majestic mountain range.
The scientists -- including Omar Torres-Carvajal of Ecuador, Pablo J. Venegas of Peru, and Kevin de Queiroz, with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History -- discovered the new species in the long, slender region known as the Tropical Andes, an area rich in biodiversity.