However, despite its impressive adaptations, the mossy leaf-tailed gecko faces growing threats that challenge its survival.

MADISON, Wis. -- Rescuing a cat from a tree? That would be too cliche for the Madison Fire Department. But what about a gecko? MFD responded to an east side residence in the 4000 block of Claire ...

Many arboreal lizards leap and glide from tree to tree, but what if they can't glide to a gentle, four-point landing? Researchers documented many such leaps of the common house gecko, and found that ...

A reptile found in Madagascar is impossible to tell apart from tree bark by day. For decades, scientists had mixed it up with a relative. By Sofia Quaglia As night falls on the northern forests of ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- Madison firefighters helped rescue a pet gecko from a tree Thursday night. Firefighters responded to an east side residence where the gecko ran up a tree and would not come down, ...

Scientists discovered a new species of paragliding gecko in India. The smiling reptiles use skin flaps along their body to fly from tree to tree. The discovery highlights a lack of documentation of ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

Geckos would definitely medal in a contest for nature’s best feet. The lizard’s sticky toes, covered in tiny hairs, mean it can climb across ceilings in a fantastic feat of evolution. But scientists ...

They won’t eat each other, and the family of marsupials does not seem to mind that the lizard is using them for warmth. By Anthony Ham When Alex Hams, a land conservation manager at Bush Heritage ...

A gecko's tail is a wondrous and versatile thing. In more than 15 years of research on geckos, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and, more recently, the Max Planck Institute for ...

A gecko’s tail is a wondrous and versatile thing. In more than 15 years of research on geckos, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and, more recently, the Max Planck Institute for ...