It isn’t the world’s tiniest lizard, but the discovery of this odd-looking gecko by a University of Texas at Arlington ...
Yellow eyelash-like scales ring its eyes. A Cyrtodactylus kanchanadit, or Kanchanadit bent-toed gecko, in its natural habitat ...
A Villanova University biologist is studying how geckos stick to surfaces in an effort to replicate this mechanism for new medical adhesives ...
These anurans are facing an uncertain future, all thanks to our ever-warming planet, which is drying out frog and toad habitats. In a recent paper, an international team of researchers paints a stark ...
The discovery of worms and snails confirms that these still-mysterious, dark hotspots of life extend beyond what’s visible above the crust Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent A sample of ocean ...
ORONO, Maine — American lobsters along Maine’s coast have relocated to new habitats, while the population simultaneously shrunk in abundance and grew older, according to a new study by ...
A recent study in the journal Nature Climate Change found that severe increases in aridity caused by climate change is drying out frog habitats across the globe. In fact, unless humans ...
A small international team has found that anurans such as frogs and toads will be facing increased risks to their survival in the coming years due to water habitats drying up as a result of global ...
Intrigued, researchers took a closer look at the lizards, analyzed their DNA and quickly realized they’d discovered a new species: Gehyra corona, or the Crown Island four-clawed gecko.
The tokay gecko is a species of lizard largely native to Asia that scientists recently discovered has been hiding a biological quirk deep within its inner ear, according to a new study in Current ...
What is now being evaluated and tested is the use of "softgoods" to fashion inflatable/expandable airlocks and off-Earth habitats, not only for low Earth orbit, but also to provide comfy housing ...
However, the tokay gecko can pick up vibrations that are much lower and deeper—within the range of 50 to 200 Hertz—using a special part of their inner ear called the saccule. The saccule is ...