Newly described gecko from Madagascar a master of disguise

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Newly described gecko from Madagascar a master of disguise

The leaf-tailed geckos of the genus Uroplatus aren’t easy to find. In the jungles of their native Madagascar, this is certainly true, owing to their remarkable ability to meld into their surroundings. But scientists are still uncovering species from the island nation with astonishing regularity by disentangling species complexes using DNA analysis. In 1989, only six of these leaf-tailed geckos were known to science from Madagascar. Today, that n…