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On Rábida Island in the Galápagos, where red-tinged beaches meet ancient lava formations, Mares’s leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus maresi) is back. Once thought extinct on this island, a genetically distinct population has survived here against all odds, scientists have now confirmed. For more than a century, despite intensive collecting efforts across the Galápagos…
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How a gecko species defied extinction on a Galápagos island
Qiana Schildgen
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On Rábida Island in the Galápagos, where red-tinged beaches meet ancient lava formations, Mares’s leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus maresi) is back. Once thought extinct on this island, a genetically distinct population has survived here against all odds, scientists have now confirmed. For more than a century, despite intensive collecting efforts across the Galápagos…
