Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>This flat-bodied South African <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/gecko" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gecko</span></a> was a lost species. It's been found again after 34 years <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-05-flat-bodied-south-african-gecko.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-05-flat-bod</span><span class="invisible">ied-south-african-gecko.html</span></a></p><p>"They were dropped off on the top of one of the canyon's rocky outcrops with sheer cliffs more than 100 m high... the exact same outcrop where they were found in 1991. Pietersen & Davies only had 3 days to find the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/geckos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geckos</span></a>, 8-9 cm long when fully grown... they saw 20-30 specimens and captured & photographed 7, giving the world a glimpse of a lost gecko 3 decades in the making."</p>