The sight of a leopard gecko shedding its skin mesmerized Katherine. The tiny creature was carefully rubbing itself against nearby surfaces, working to loosen the old layer. With a stretch of its ...

Shedding. Your leopard gecko will shed its skin periodically. They eat the skin that peels off, but you should remove any dead skin that litters the vivarium.

After purchasing a Lemon Frost gecko named Mr. Frosty at a reptile auction, Sykes had bred Mr. Frosty with various female leopard geckos to establish a colony of more than 900 lizards.

The leopard gecko is strange to its brethren, but in ways that make it more approachable to us. ... Leopard geckos shed and then eat their skin, too, the better to avoid getting tracked.

But when a gecko sheds its scales so easily, that makes it a bit of a challenge. The researchers instead used a micro-CT scan — which provides a 3D X-ray — to examine their skeletons.

New Gecko Sheds Skin on Demand, Looks Like Raw Chicken. The Madagascar native has unusually large scales that it can drop with extraordinary ease, a new study says. By Michelle Z. Donahue.

Mr. Frosty isn’t a snowman or a company that sells slushies, but a mutant leopard gecko that might help us better understand skin cancer. In 2015, a reptile breeder noticed one member of the ...