Here be dragons: Analysis reveals new species in Smaug lizard group – Research News https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/smaug-swazicus-new-dragon-lizard/
Smaug, the deadly dragon in J.R.R. Tolkien’s „The Hobbit,“ has a few living relatives. With dense, alligator-like armor, these small, real-life dragon lizards are rock-crevice recluses mostly confined to mountaintops in southern Africa. Now, herpetologists Michael Bates, a curator at South Africa’s
the Swazi dragon lizard, in honor of the country of Eswatini