Check out Anolis proboscis, also known as the Pinocchio lizard, for obvious reasons. This animal hadn’t been seen from the 1960s through to 2005. Now, a team of photographers has finally caught up ...

Alejandro Arteaga and his team of researchers and photographers needed just one last photograph to complete their book documenting the reptiles and amphibians of Mindo, in northern Ecuador. But the ...

The Pinocchio lizard — the anole with the extra-long proboscis — is not extinct after all. It has been rediscovered deep in the cloud forests of Ecuador. Researchers practically fell over it. A ...

Image of the Day: Social “Pinocchio” The Ecuadorian horned anole lizard (Anolis proboscis) is known as the “Pinocchio lizard” for the males’ long noses, which are used in social displays but not for ...

Researchers with Tropical Herping spotted the horned anole known as the Pinocchio lizard, which was once thought extinct. (TropicalHerping.com) The Pinocchio lizard — the anole with the extra-long ...