As darkness settled across a field in central Cambodia, a “slender” creature with striped lips emerged from its hiding spot and moved along the ground. Something about the “leaf-toed” animal caught ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Researchers who were dropped off by helicopter in a largely inaccessible and remote canyon in South Africa say they have discovered a type of gecko that hadn't been ...

When they looked closer at the animals, they realized the resemblance was clearly “superficial” and they’d discovered a new species: Dixonius sambhupura, or the Sambhupura leaf-toed gecko.