"Moby dick" is how the scientists called the new species of lizard (for it looks like the Cetaceans) that has just been discovered in Madagascar by an international team of researchers, announced the CNRS or "Centre National de Recherce Scientifiques" in Montpellier France.

"Sinoscincus mobydisk" allusing to the famous "albino whale in the novel of Herman  Melville, this species presents an unique combination of anatomic caracteristics in the level of the terrestrial vertebrates such as the amphibians, reptiles, birds & mammals.

"A MORPHOLOGIC ORGANISATION" THAT REMINDS THE CETACEANS

Discovered in the dry forest in North-western of madagascar. According to the same source "Moby Dick" has gone through an evolution diametrically opposite of the other species of Legless Lizards.
Indeed, the beast presents a depigmented skin and its eyes have almost disappeared for they are more or less useless since it lives under the sol. Moby Dick has lost its hind paw as well but has forelimbs. A Morphologic organisation Plan that reminds those of the Cetaceans the CNRS affirmed.
The jobs of those researchers french, malagasy, americans and Deucth have benn pubblished  last december in the review "zoosystema" has declared the CNRS.

This is just another good reason to visit madagascar

Source: emonde.fr
http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2013/01/15/decouverte-d-une-nouvelle-espece-le-lezard-moby-dick-de-madacasgar_1817456_1650684.html