A team of researchers has discovered a new species of Fan-throated lizard of the genus Sitana from coastal Kerala in southern India. Researchers including Dr.Kalesh Sadasivan and Ramesh M. from Travancore Nature History Society (TNHS) in Thiruvananthapuram and Mohammed Jafer Palot from Zoological Survey of India, Western Ghats Regional Centre, Kozhikode who found the lizard collaborated with Mayuresh Ambedkar and Zeeshan A Mirza from National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru (NCBS) and the team together conducted the research only to discover Sitana attenboroughii. The collaboration between TNHS and NCBS is unique example of how citizen scientists can work in collaboration with scientists to publish world class research and help in Naure conservation. The new species Sitana attenboroughii has been named after Sir David Frederick Attenborough, an English veteran broadcaster and naturalist. This is the first species of the genus Sitana to be recorded from Kerala