A lizard called Delcourt’s giant gecko has long been one of herpetology’s biggest mysteries — literally. Presumed extinct, the animal is by far the largest gecko known to have crawled the Earth, ...

Many lizards are capable of detaching their tails when a predator strikes, but one group of geckos has evolved a particularly gruesome escape strategy: unusually large scales that tear off when a ...

Researchers hope to uncover details about an elusive "giant" gecko which lives on a remote tropical island off Western Australia's coastline. New research hopes to shed light on the elusive Christmas ...

Kawekaweau was a giant forest gecko in New Zealand. Only one person had seen a living specimen—and he’d killed it. Then a stuffed gecko turned up in a museum, in France. No one knows where it came ...

Feb. 7 (UPI) --A newly identified fish-scale gecko species has mastered the art of escape. While other gecko species can easily abandon their tail to squirm free from the jaws or talons of a predator, ...

In the forests of New Caledonia lives one of the most remarkable reptiles in the world, the New Caledonian giant gecko. Found only on the southern portion of this Pacific island territory, this ...