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A new species of African lizard, described by Scott Keogh, Mitzy Pepper and colleagues, has been featured on the BBC Earth website. Attenborough’s flat lizard (Platysaurus attenboroughi) found in South Africa and Namibia, is named after naturalist Sir David Attenborough, who featured flat lizards in his 2008 TV series 'Life in Cold Blood'. The new species is described in Zootaxa.

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Journal article

• Whiting, MJ, Branch, WR, Pepper, M & Keogh, JS, 2015. A new species of spectacularly coloured flat lizard Platysaurus (Squamata: Cordylidae: Platysaurinae) from southern Africa. Zootaxa.

Online articles

• New colourful lizard named after Sir david Attenborough, BBC Earth, 3 August 2015
• Platysaurus attenboroughi: African Lizard Named after Sir David Attenborough, Sci-News.com, 21 July 2015
• New Lizard named after Sir David Attenborough, Macquarie University Press Release, 3 August 2015
• New Two-Toned Lizard Discovered, Named for David Attenborough, wfmynew2.com, 3 August 2015
• New African lizard named after Sir David Attenborough, The Economic Times, 3 August 2015
• New lizard species named in honor of Sir David Attenborough, Hopes & Fears, 3 August 2015
• 'New’ lizard found in N Cape, iOL scitech, 24 July 2015
• New African lizard named after Sir David Attenborough, Z news India, 3 August 2015
• New South African Lizard Species Named After David Attenborough, Reptiles magazine, 24 July 2015
• Scientists name lizard species after Sir David Attenborough, UPI, 3 August 2015
• New two-toned lizard species named for David Attenborough, CBS News, 3 August, 2015
• New Brightly Colored Lizard Named After David Attenborough, IFL Science, 5 August 2015
• The Attenborough's Flat Lizard, Green humour, 1 August 2015