Jon Preston was enjoying a visit to the National Zoo with his family this winter when he came upon a surprising, unofficial exhibit: a spotted gecko belly-up on the sidewalk. Puzzled to see a tropical ...

In central India's Satpura Tiger Reserve, scientists have found a much tinier predator: A new species of gecko. About the size of a human palm, the reptile was not easy to find: It's active at night, ...

Two new records of the salt-flat specialist gecko, Pseudoceramodactylus khobarensis, from the eastern Rub Al Khali desert in Arabia have closed the distributional knowledge gap for this species, ...

A new species of bent-toed gecko has come to light during nighttime expeditions into the rain forests of Indonesia's Foja Mountains (map), sometimes called a "lost world." Herpetologist Paul Oliver ...

A biodiversity survey has, for the first time, recorded the presence of Beddome’s cat skink (Ristella beddomii) at the Aralam and Kottiyoor Wildlife sanctuaries. The survey also reconfirmed the ...

For Darren Pietersen, some mysteries don’t fade with time. A gecko he first read about as a student stayed with him for years. Last month, he finally came face-to-face with it. Researchers have ...