SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that Puerto Rico’s Monito gecko has recovered and is being removed from the list of endangered species. The tiny, ...

Scientists are discovering new species in all corners of the world—and in some cases, they’re stumbling upon old species in places they were previously thought to be extinct. One of the latest ...

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 ...

A small, elusive lizard is bouncing back following the eradication of invasive rats on an island in the Galápagos. Conservationists say they have rediscovered a leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus maresi) ...

Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 46, No. 4 (December 2012), pp. 488-493 (6 pages) A new species of Cyrtodactylus is described from foothill forest on the northern edge of the Finisterre Range, ...

Jan. 10 (UPI) --A small gecko that may have traveled thousands of miles with a box of beer was captured at a British warehouse and turned over to animal rescuers. Beer importer and distributor Cave ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif., Sept. 29 (UPI) --Only 60 percent of geckos have adhesive toe pads. Of the 40 percent that do not, many belong to the genus Gonatodes, a group of dwarf geckos. But new analysis ...

How do key innovations in the animal kingdom arise? To explore this question, evolutionary biologists studied Gonatodes, a genus of dwarf geckos. In the process, the researchers found a ...

Functional morphologists and polymer scientists show that geckos have a spring-like mechanism in their bodies to enhance adhesion as they become larger. A few years ago the same authors invented the ...

Scientists found a small, spiky animal on twigs and leaves of Sumatra island forests and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Ahda, Nugraha, Hon Tjong, Kurniawan, Amardi, Fauzi and Lin ...

AMHERST, Mass. - Geckos employ dry adhesion, using a combination of microscopic hairs on their toe pads, as well as other aspects of internal anatomy, to climb vertical walls and run across ceilings, ...