As darkness fell across a windmill farm in western India, a spiky creature emerged from some nearby rocks to hunt. Its “large ...

A Hemidactylus amarasinghei, or Amarasinghe’s house gecko. Photo from Sayyed ... because of “his enormous contribution to Asian herpetological research since 2005.” The new species was ...

They took a closer look at the animals and soon realized they’d discovered a new species: Hemidactylus amarasinghei, or Amarasinghe’s house gecko. Amarasinghe’s house geckos are considered ...