This lizard species, which is valued for its use in traditional medicine in China and Southeast Asia, can earn a smuggler ...

The world’s tiniest zoo (maybe) is slinking into East Williamsburg.

African fat-tailed geckos are one of the most popular pet lizard species. Their distinctive appearance makes them very ...

They didn’t know it right away, but they’d just discovered a new species. A team of researchers spent almost 30 years traveling around Madagascar searching for and collecting lizards.

Intrigued, they caught several for a closer look and soon realized they’d found a new species: Goggia sabula, or the gravel pygmy gecko. A Goggia sabula, or gravel pygmy gecko. Photo from ...

Courtney Hundermark is one of the authors of the research article New Pygmy Gecko (Goggia: Gekkonidae) from the arid Northern ...

The Gravel Pygmy Gecko is known only from the rocky hills and gravel flats near Klein Pella, where it inhabits thin rock crevices. The environment in which this species survives is very rugged ...

There a lot of people who love the natural world, people who love oddities, who love reptiles, and people who love ...