Two new records of the salt-flat specialist gecko, Pseudoceramodactylus khobarensis, from the eastern Rub Al Khali desert in Arabia have closed the distributional knowledge gap for this species, ...

This paper features a gecko called Pachydactylus rangei (Namib web-footed gecko), which lives in the Namib Desert in the southwestern part of the African continent and is about 10 to 15 cm in length.

Beneath the relentless sun of Chile's Atacama Desert, tiny geckos hide a remarkable secret. New genomic research, led by the University of Wollongong's (UOW) Kamryn Carter, has discovered that these ...

Learn how this ghostly gecko's webbed feet help it survive in the dunes of the Namib Desert. Find out more about this petite, ...

Migrating insects are key to the reptiles’ survival in Iran’s Lut Desert A handful of small, nocturnal geckos have spilled their guts for science, revealing how the creatures get by in a part of Earth ...

A new species of “barking” gecko was discovered in the interdune region of Namibia’s Sand Sea, according to a study. Joshua Kettle via Unsplash On warm nights in the Namib Sand Sea — Namibia’s vast ...

Move it or lose it. In the case of geckos studied in Namibia, it's an adage that seems to have stuck. In a study of the evolution of gecko locomotion, University of Calgary biology professor Anthony ...

One of the strange, small reptiles living within the giant deserts of Southern Africa is the barking gecko. It is unusual and strange to find a small gecko that barks very loudly and scares the wits ...

Ecologists have no doubt that climate change will affect the earth's animals and plants. But how exactly? This is often hard to predict. There are already indications that some species are shifting ...