The Gold Dust Day gecko (Phelsuma laticauda) is a 4 to 5 inches lizard found on all major islands of Hawaii. However, despite common belief, it is not a native species of Hawaii. It actually ...

Geckos are ubiquitous throughout the Hawaiian Islands today, but that was not always the case. Though lizards can colonize islands by clinging to drifting trees and plant material, the Hawaiian ...

The critically endangered electric blue day gecko (Lygodactylus willoamsi) from Tanzania. This species is being bred in captivity — wild populations are suffering from habitat destruction and ...

If you can't jet out of Boston to a tropical getaway this winter, Geckos: Tails to Toepads might just put you in a warm weather mindset. The new show at the Museum of Science opens January 22, ...

A new species of day gecko, Cnemaspis godagedarai, has been described in Sri Lanka, bringing the island’s number of endemic geckos in the genus Cnemaspis to 25. The new gecko, named after a national ...

In a remote region of southwestern Africa, a “large” patterned creature perched on some rocks until something spooked it. It ran “rapidly to escape” but couldn’t avoid the attention of nearby ...

Maybe you thought we knew all there was to know about the ordinary house gecko? Not so: [O]nly now have scientists discovered how the tail plays into the gecko's ability to climb the seemingly ...