Like all other spiny-tailed geckos, S. spinula can secrete a harmless and foul-smelling chemical from glands near its tail to deter potentially predatory birds from landing in overhead shrubbery ...

Looking closer, they identified a new species of spiny-tailed gecko that was previously misclassified. The new species was named Strophurus spinula, or the lesser thorn-tailed gecko, researchers said.

Looking closer, they identified a new species of spiny-tailed gecko that was previously misclassified. The new species was named Strophurus spinula, or the lesser thorn-tailed gecko, researchers said.

Looking closer, they identified a new species of spiny-tailed gecko that was previously misclassified. The new species was named Strophurus spinula, or the lesser thorn-tailed gecko, researchers said.

The spiny-tailed bent-toed gecko was named “denticulate,” meaning “with small teeth,” after the “small tooth-like” spikes on its body, researchers said.

A team of researchers discovered a new leaf-toed gecko species in western Angola, and it has a rather striking dragon-like tail. Angolan researcher Pedro Vaz Pinto was on a "routine night walk ...

The spiny-tailed bent-toed gecko was named “denticulate,” meaning “with small teeth,” after the “small tooth-like” spikes on its body, researchers said.

The spiny-tailed bent-toed gecko was named “denticulate,” meaning “with small teeth,” after the “small tooth-like” spikes on its body, researchers said.

There, among the leaves, he found not just a family of pygmy possums, but also a small, orange-eyed lizard known as a western spiny-tailed gecko. “They were climbing all over each other and ...

The bright-eyed reptiles were identified as a new species after a genetic analysis of other geckos revealed they were separate from another closely related species.