Biologist’s First Thought After Seeing This New Gecko Species Is “Starry Night”, Names It “Vangoghi”

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Biologist’s First Thought After Seeing This New Gecko Species Is “Starry Night”, Names It “Vangoghi”
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Nature can truly surprise us in the most unexpected way. Scientists in India discovered a new species of gecko that looks almost exactly like van Gogh's masterpiece The Starry Night.

The scientists were traveling to the eastern slopes of the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu when they discovered the unique gecko Vangoghi – a tinyNew gecko species discovered by a group of scientists from the Thackeray Wildlife Foundation was named after Vincent van Gogh due to its unique colorationThe significant expedition took place in April 2022 in the Southern Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India.

Physicist Jose Luis Aragon had an interesting interpretation of this painting because compared van Gogh’s turbulent play of light and dark in The Starry Night to theof turbulence in such natural occurrences as as whirlpools and air streams. Two other paintings from 1890, Wheatfield with Crows and Road with Cypress and Star, are also related to this phenomena.

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