More than 600 new species, including the world’s smallest known primate, a spider that spins golden webs and a gecko that changes colour during courtship, have been discovered on Madagascar in the past decade.
New species found between 1999 and last year included 41 mammals, 385 plants, 69 amphibians, 61 reptiles, 17 fish and 42 invertebrates.
Magadascar is the world’s fourth largest island, covering an area the size of France.
It was isolated from other landmasses 165m years ago, leading scientists to dub it the Eight Continent
and making many of the species discovered there totally unique in the world — via darrah–greenville–sc.newsvine.com
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