BGR

Watch A Gecko Take Down A Scorpion In This Breathtaking Slow-Mo Video

Researchers with San Diego State University (SDSU) in California have shared a spectacular video of western banded geckos fighting scorpions. These geckos are normally thought of as fairly ...
Yale Environment 360

Yale study gives grandmother gecko a place of honor — and a new name

Yale paleontologists have identified a new fossil lizard, found in the western United States, which they say was an ancestor of modern geckos. And they gave it a name that honors the lead researcher’s ...
JSTOR Daily

Low Cost of Locomotion in the Banded Gecko: A Test of the Nocturnality Hypothesis

https://doi.org/10.1086/515880 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/515880 Copy URL ABSTRACT This study tested the hypothesis that there has been an evolutionary ...
Newsweek

Gecko Takes Down Venomous Scorpion in Dramatic Slow-Motion Video

Dramatic footage has been shared online capturing the moment a gecko went toe-to-tarsal claw with a venomous scorpion. The video was shared with Newsweek by researchers from San Diego State University ...
Miami Herald

‘Long’-tailed creature — with ‘large’ red eyes — found on island. It’s a new species

Scientists found a “long”-tailed animal with “large” red eyes in Japan and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo shows a representative area of Okinawa. Photo from Yu via Unsplash Obscured by ...
JSTOR Daily

Factors Influencing Activity in Coleonyx variegatus

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The activities of the banded gecko, Coleonyx variegatus, were observed in the field and in an outdoor enclosure. Fieldwork supported previous ...