Scientists found a “giant” creature in a forest of New Caledonia, kept it in a terrarium for decades and discovered a new species. Photo from Joachim Sameit Following lumberjacks into the forest of a ...

Many lizards are capable of detaching their tails when a predator strikes, but one group of geckos has evolved a particularly gruesome escape strategy: unusually large scales that tear off when a ...

This newly discovered gecko species from Madagascar is a master escape artist. It's extremely fast. Like other lizards, it can lose its tail and grow a new one. And it can shed its scales — the ...

CAMBRIDGE, New Zealand, April 22 (UPI) -- New Zealand's Maungatautari Restoration Project said a giant gecko found dead in a mouse trap was the first spotted on the mainland in nearly 100 years.

Kawekaweau was a giant forest gecko in New Zealand. Only one person had seen a living specimen—and he’d killed it. Then a stuffed gecko turned up in a museum, in France. No one knows where it came ...

This Geckolepis megalepis has lost some of its scales, but can grow them back within two to three weeks. This newly discovered gecko species from Madagascar is a master escape artist. It's extremely ...