What makes pygmy leaf chameleons cool: Western scientists have been studying the forests of Madagascar for a while now, so how did they not learn about the minute leaf chameleons (or Brookesia minima) until 2012? Probably because the chameleon is small. Tiny, really, at about 19 millimeters long. That’s about the size of a fingernail.
The chameleons are very cute, especially when they change their colors to camouflage. Somehow when they do it, it’s even cuter than when larger chameleons do.
Because they were made known to Western science relatively recently, we don’t yet know what their lifespan is in the wild, though in captivity they tend to live for about 10 years.