Scientists in Australia, Burundi, India, Uganda and Vietnam found cryptic lizards hiding in different habitats and discovered five new species of gecko. Photo from Conrad Hoskin via James Cook ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — 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 ...

Thousands of gecko species live all over the world, making their home on every continent except Antarctica. These unique and ...

Scientists found a “dwarf”-like creature in Cameroon, kept it in terrarium and discovered a new species: Lobeke dwarf gecko, study said. Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto In a rainforest of ...

The Guangnan slender gecko was found at night on the “earthen walls” of abandoned homes at the edge of the karst forests near Dianzi Village, according to a study. Photo by Hongxin Zhou Zootaxa In a ...

It's the time of year when scientific organizations take a look back at some of the most amazing new animals, plants, fungi and other species they discovered in the past 12 months. "Finding and ...

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 ...

Whether landing on an uninhabited island or venturing into a darkened landscape, teams of scientists around the world headed into the field with a shared goal. They all wanted to find some ...

Beneath the relentless sun of Chile's Atacama Desert, tiny geckos hide a remarkable secret. New genomic research, led by the University of Wollongong's (UOW) Kamryn Carter, has discovered that these ...

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 ...

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 ancient bones as previous evidence of its existence.

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 ...