French scientists discover new species of gecko

November 8, 2008 By JENNY BARCHFIELD , Associated Press Writer French scientists discover new species of gecko (AP)

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French scientist Ivan Ineich displays a never-before-seen species of gecko, baptised with the latin name Lepidodactylus buleli, at France's Natural History Museum in Paris, Friday, Nov. 7 , 2008. This gecko was born in Paris from an egg that was plucked from the canopy of forest on the west coast of Espiritu Santo, one of the larger South Pacific islands of the archipellago of Vanuatu, east of Australia. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

(AP) -- French scientists say they hatched a new gecko species from an egg plucked from its nest in a South Pacific island and carried it 12,000 miles to Paris in a box lined with Kleenex.



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