Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antoinette and Brucie-Baby, believed to be the world's oldest geckos, found on New Zealand's Motunau Island. - Department of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The crested gecko's current popularity in the pet trade ...

Geckos are one of the most common reptiles on the planet. There are nearly 2,000 species of gecko in seven distinct gecko families. This makes geckos one of the most diverse reptile clades. You can ...

Geckos are known as solitary creatures, but according to some scientists, these little guys look out for one another. As you can see in this Instagram post, some geckos display protective behavior ...

Australia's Bynoe's gecko -- a line of all-female geckos -- doesn't need sex or a male to reproduce and, contrary to expectations, these "Wonder Woman" geckos can run farther and faster than their ...

Reptiles have long been considered to be dim-witted and cold-blooded (in more ways than one), but research is beginning to find that they possess an impressive collection of cognitive abilities. For ...

Geckos can use their tongue to differentiate their own odor from that of other members of their species, as researchers from the University of Bern have shown in a new experimental study. The findings ...