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A nose-horned dragon lizard lost to science for over 100 years has been found

Indonesia’s Modigliani’s lizards are bright green but can shift shades like a chameleon

Modigliani’s nose-horned lizard

Notable for the horn that emerges from its nose, a living Modigliani’s lizard was found in 2018 in the forests of North Sumatra in Indonesia. The species was last spotted in 1891.

C.A. Putra

By Dyna Rochmyaningsih

- More than 2 years ago

Nearly 130 years ago, Italian explorer Elio Modigliani arrived at a natural history museum in Genoa with a lizard he’d reportedly collected from the forests of Indonesia.