LEGLESS LIZARD  
  This species of lizard of the genus Bachia is one of the new species discovered during the expedition. Although there are other species of the genus in the Cerrado (almost all discovered and described only recently), this new species has only been recorded in the Ecological Station. The absence of legs and the sharply pointed snout help in locomotion over the surface layer of sandy soil, predominating in all the Jalapao, formed by the natural erosion of the escarpments of the Serra Geral plateaus. (Credit: Copyright CI/Cristiano Nogueira)  

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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

'Spookfish' has mirrors for eyes

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A Pacific fish uses mirrors as well as lenses to help it see in the murky ocean depths, scientists have revealed.The brownsnout spookfish has been known for 120 years, but no live specimen had ever been captured.Last year, one was caught off Tonga, by scientists from Tuebingen University, Germany.Tests confirmed the fish is the first vertebrate known to have developed mirrors to focus light into its eyes, the team reports in Current Biology.

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