"It is exciting to find a new species in Australia in this day and age ... came to fame in 2023 with the naming of a spectacular leaf-tailed gecko also unique to the island.

Herpetologist Santosh Bhattarai, a PhD student at Federation University Australia ... recently discovered three new-to-science species of bent-toed geckos (Cyrtodactylus genus).

They took a closer look at the animals, tested their DNA and quickly realized they’d discovered a new species: Cyrtodactylus chitwanensis, or the Chitwan bent-toed gecko. A Cyrtodactylus ...