No threat invader Not all invasive species spell doom and destruction for native plants and animals, according to a new study of a stowaway gecko that has made its home in Northern Australia. The ...

Geckos use a combination of techniques to race across water. This is an Inside Science story. The flat-tailed house gecko can not only stick to walls and glide through the air, but also run on water, ...

In northern Australia some houses are filled nightly with chatter. You might hear a distinctive “chuck-chuck-chuck”, or find calling cards (droppings) on skirting boards, picture frames and window ...

“A gecko on the loose – better call Geico!” was Maria Holland’s response on Facebook when she learned that this little critter photographed on the side of her house was a gecko! I was surprised too. A ...

(Inside Science) -- The flat-tailed house gecko can not only stick to walls and glide through the air, but also run on water, a new study finds. This discovery of the combination of techniques the ...

The African house gecko, one of the most widely distributed invasive reptiles in the world, may have moved with the trans-Atlantic slave trade. By Sabrina Imbler If you see a gecko scampering up the ...

Formosan termites swarmed on Tuesday evening (May 12) in the New Orleans metropolitan area (and social media was there to capture it), and house geckos living in the spaces between mailboxes and ...

Porter Ranch resident Reese Bernstein is really into lizards. In fact, the 9-year-old boy knows so much about reptiles – he estimates he has caught a bazillion with his bare hands – that when he ...

There are four species of geckos that make up the tropical house gecko group, they are all very similar in appearance and habits. The tropical house gecko is abundant in the Durban area, it is often ...

If you see a gecko scampering up the side of a house in Florida or somewhere in Central or South America closer to the Equator, there is good chance it is an African house gecko, Hemidactylus mabouia.