As darkness fell across a windmill farm in western India, a spiky creature emerged from some nearby rocks to hunt. Its “large ...

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Photo from Sayyed, Khot and Purkayastha (2025) As darkness fell across a windmill farm in western India, a spiky creature ... or Amarasinghe’s house gecko. A Hemidactylus amarasinghei, or ...