New Gecko Species Named After Vincent Van Gogh

From phone cases to bed sheets, Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night (1889) has been replicated endlessly since it was first painted at the end of the 19th century. But as a first, a new species of blue gecko was recently named after the Dutch artist himself because of its peculiar skin color that resembles that dreamy night sky that Van Gogh captured many moons ago.Cnemaspis vangoghi ("Van Gogh's Starry dwarf gecko"), as it's been named, measures roughly one-and-a-half inches and was first spotted i...