Geckos have an extraordinary ability to cling to smooth vertical surfaces thanks to special gripping toe pads. Less well known is that some geckos have another sticky pad underneath the tip of their ...

Thousands of gecko species live all over the world, making their home on every continent except Antarctica. These unique and ...

Without decades of basic research on unusual animal adaptations, including the anatomy of gecko feet and toes, scientists would miss opportunities to develop innovations and applications of great ...

The leopard gecko is known for its unique characteristics and behaviors. These small lizards are native to the arid regions ...

The diminutive gecko is capable of some extraordinary feats of locomotion, zipping along vertical walls with ease and even running short distances across water. Precisely how they accomplish these ...

Geckos are master climbers, and can scurry up smooth vertical surfaces and even across ceilings thanks to their hairy toes. They’re not hairy in the same way that yours or mine might be, with a tuft ...

Australian geckos are remarkably adaptable reptiles, thriving across diverse environments due to unique traits like adhesive toe pads and nocturnal vision. Their evolutionary history and varied ...

A remarkable new gecko species, *Cyrtodactylus sakaeratensis*, has been discovered in Thailand's Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve. This slender, bent-toed gecko, identified through DNA and morphological ...

The gecko adhesive system is dependent on weak van der Waals interactions that are multiplied across thousands of fine hair-like structures (setae) on geckos’ toe pads. Due to the requirements of van ...

Barking geckos get their name for a pretty obvious reason, but why do they bark? Read here to learn more about barking geckos.

Caption Close-up look at the toe pads of a Tokay gecko. They have about 15,000 hairs per foot, each of which has split ends that maximize contact with the surface and support the animal's weight by ...