The San Diego Zoo has just welcomed its first baby of 2011, hatched on New Year's Day. And while the satanic leaf-tailed gecko may sound menacing, the zoo is excited to have the newborn lizard. The ...
A gecko's tail continues to flip, flop and wriggle long after it has dropped off the lizard's body. Now a new study proposes the tail is preprogrammed for random movement to foil predators while the ...