Researchers who were dropped off by helicopter in a largely inaccessible and remote canyon in South Africa say they have discovered a type of gecko that hadn't been seen in more than 30 years and was ...

A new species of gliding gecko has been uncovered in northern India. Bearing the name of the Indian state it was discovered in, the Mizoram parachute gecko, or Gekko mizoramensis, is one of 14 geckos ...

Survival can be a strange business. Take, for example, the newly named Geckolepis megalepis, which, when trapped, simply sheds its big scales and scampers away naked. Researchers described the new ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mares’s leaf-toed gecko has been rediscovered on Rábida Island in the Galápagos after being thought extinct for more than a century, with only ...

A species of tiny and secretive geckos long thought lost on one Galápagos island has made a dramatic return, and all it really took was calling someone about the rat problem. NewScientist reports that ...

A recent biological investigation conducted in northwestern Vietnam has uncovered two newly described species of half-leaf fingered geckoes (Hemiphyllodactylus ziegleri and Hemiphyllodactylus ...

ANTANANARIVO — An international team of biologists has identified a new species of gecko in small forest remnants of southeastern Madagascar. Named Paragehyra tsaranoro, the lizard is microendemic to ...

A close-up shot of a male Cnemaspis vangoghi in his natural habitat — along the rocks in the Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu, India (all photos by and courtesy Akshay Khandekar, unless otherwise noted) A ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Researchers who were dropped off by helicopter in a largely inaccessible and remote canyon in South Africa say they have discovered a type of gecko that hadn't been seen in ...

Researcher Darren Pietersen holds a Blyde Rondavel Flat Gecko, a type of lizard that previously hadn't been recorded since it was discovered in 1991, on a research trip to the Blyde River Canyon in ...