Smithsonian Magazine

To Get on the Same Frequency as Early Reptiles, this Scientist Compares Tiny Fossilized Bones to Modern Lizard Ears

Using the fossil record and modern cold-blooded critters, paleontologist Kelsey Jenkins recreates the hearing capabilities of ...
Yahoo

Why do lizards do pushups? What to know about the Arizona geckos in your backyard

As we welcome the warmer months here in Arizona, it's not uncommon for you to encounter a lizard or two enjoying the sunshine in your backyard. If you stare at them long enough you'll spot them ...
Smithsonian Magazine

For the Love of Lizards: Meet One of the Smithsonian’s Lizard Experts

For more than fifty years, museum herpetologist George Zug has studied all manner of reptiles and amphibians Jack Tamisiea A slender-toed gecko in New Guinea. In 2020, Smithsonian herpetologist George ...
Newsday

This flat-bodied South African gecko was a 'lost' species. It's been found again after 34 years

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Researchers who were dropped off by helicopter in a largely inaccessible and remote canyon in South Africa say they have discovered a type of gecko that hadn't been seen in ...
WUSA

Chemo for a gecko? National Zoo vets go all in to save 3-ounce lizard with tumors

WASHINGTON — Chemo for a gecko? Right-o. Humans have used geckos in the pursuit of skin cancer treatments. So it seems fitting that when a gecko at the National Zoo was spotted with tumors, humans ...
CNN

The gecko’s most astounding maneuver has nothing to do with its sticky feet

Geckos would definitely medal in a contest for nature’s best feet. The lizard’s sticky toes, covered in tiny hairs, mean it can climb across ceilings in a fantastic feat of evolution. But scientists ...