Smallest Reptile Found

[Richard W Travsky <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

Not quite dinos but interesting anyways...

 http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991635

A new species of lizard is rivalling the smallest known reptile for a
place in the Guinness Book of Records. Its adult length is only about 1.6
centimetres, less than the width of a five-pence piece, and it weighs less
than a fifth of a gramme.
        
"It was a surprise to find something that small," says Blair
Hedges of Pennsylvania State University, who discovered the gecko on a
remote island called Beata in the West Indies. "It's remarkable to see a
vertebrate that's smaller than a cockroach."

Hedges and his colleague Richard Thomas of the University of Puerto Rico
have named the new lizard Sphaerodactylus ariasae in honour of
Yvonne Arias, a pioneer of conservation in the Dominican Republic.      
     
S. ariasae> might be as small as a lizard can be. Tiny lizards dry out
quickly because their surface area is relatively large compared to their
volume. "If we don't provide a moist environment when we collect them,
they rapidly shrivel up and die by evaporation," says Hedges.