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Web-Footed Gecko Eating a Dune Cricket

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The web-footed gecko's salmon-colored skin and light-brown stripes help it stay camouflaged in the Namib Desert's reddish sands.
Photograph by Roger Bannister/Animals Animals—Earth Scenes

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Feared and Revered

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Snake Island

Go face-to-fang with the highly poisonous golden lancehead snakes of Brazil's Queimada Grande Island in this Field Tales feature.

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