Natural History Wanderings

Good News Network reported

Dropped off via helicopter on a cliff edge high on a rocky escarpment in South Africa, an observer might have mistaken a pair of herpetologists for Army Rangers.

In reality, they were searching for a gecko species not seen in 30 years since the first instance it was recorded. So much time had passed without a sighting of the little desert-colored reptile that scientists had begun to doubt its existence.

Read on www.goodnewsnetwork.org/daredevil-researchers-rediscover-mysterious-gecko-thought-extinct-or-even-imaginary/