This particular gecko species was first discovered by Dr Niels Jacobsen in December 1991 when two male specimens were collected on one of the three rondavels in the Blyde River Canyon. Also known ...

But while the gorge is home to North America’s greatest concentration of waterfalls, they’re just a drop in the bucket of everything this river canyon has to offer. Stretching over 80 miles in ...

Hells Canyon, the deepest river gorge in the United States, likely got rapidly carved 2.1 million years ago when a shifting landscape in Idaho caused a giant lake to start overflowing. That's ...

That’s according to a new study that looked at ancient river sediments that have long been hidden away inside the canyon’s caves, which now lie high above today’s Snake River. This new work ...

Federal officials have rejected a plan to release floodwaters from Lake Powell to restore Grand Canyon beaches this spring, frustrating river advocates who question the government’s commitment ...

According to the EWT report, Jacobsen collected two males in 1991 from a nearly unreachable, isolated hill in the Blyde River Canyon in Mpumalanga, but the gecko was not observed again until early ...

Highway 178 through Kern River Canyon will remain closed until further notice as crews work to extinguish a 1,000-acre brush fire north of the Upper Richbar Picnic Area. A vegetation fire broke ...

Two researchers from the Endangered Wildlife Trust were dropped into the remote Blyde River Canyon. They camped atop a high rocky outcrop for three days. It was the same site where the gecko was ...

a species first identified in 1991 in Mpumalanga Province's Blyde River Canyon but not seen since. The gecko's existence has been shrouded in mystery for decades. Some scientists questioned ...

TWO Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) researchers have rediscovered a gecko species that had not been seen for over 33 years. This brings to four the number of ‘lost species” that the EWT has ...

on a research trip to the Blyde River Canyon in South Africa, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (Endangered Wildlife Trust via AP) 31,228 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster ...