Rare color patterns are highly valued in the pet trade, so the animal was bred to create more, and when two of these so-called “lemon frost” geckos—a male and female named Mr. and Ms. Frosty—first ...

A team of researchers in Oman decided to take on a “long-standing” challenge: classifying some “extremely abundant” and similar-looking geckos found all across the country’s Hajar ...

They took a closer look at the animals, tested their DNA and quickly realized they’d discovered a new species: Cyrtodactylus chitwanensis, or the Chitwan bent-toed gecko. A Cyrtodactylus ...

The ministry is asking the secretariat of the Washington Convention, which regulates trade in wild animals and plants in danger of extinction, to add six geckos, including Kuroiwa’s ground gecko ...