A lizard called Delcourt’s giant gecko has long been one of herpetology’s biggest mysteries — literally. Presumed extinct, the animal is by far the largest gecko known to have crawled the Earth, ...

Kawekaweau was a giant forest gecko in New Zealand. Only one person had seen a living specimen—and he’d killed it. Then a stuffed gecko turned up in a museum, in France. No one knows where it came ...

The New Caledonian giant gecko (Rhacodactylus leachianus), commonly called the Leachie, is the largest living gecko in the world. Native exclusively to the islands of New Caledonia, these remarkable ...

The extremely complex geological history of New Guinea has allowed many of its animals and plants the chance to grow different enough to make a name for themselves. In the case of two newly described ...

For the month of December, I’ll be posting some of my favorite pictures from 2012. All of these photos were taken during the course of my reporting travels. This is a Giant Madagascar day gecko ...

The New Caledonian giant gecko, or Leachie, is the world's largest gecko, endemic to New Caledonia. These geckos exhibit striking colour variations and unique behaviours, thriving in rainforest ...