Not sure whether your leopard gecko is male or female? Thankfully, determining the sex of one of the adorable little lizards is fairly easy once they reach a certain age and size. Like many reptiles, ...

The gecko’s ability to climb walls and ceilings may seem like a superpower -- a gravity-defying skill that scientists and engineers are trying to re-create in a number of different devices, from ...

Geckos would definitely medal in a contest for nature’s best feet. The lizard’s sticky toes, covered in tiny hairs, mean it can climb across ceilings in a fantastic feat of evolution.

Stickybot mimics gecko biology to get a leg up Paul Day and Alan Asbeck worked on adhesives for the feet of the gecko-like Stickybot (Image: L.A. Cicero) View 1 Image ...

Once airborne, the gecko spread its legs out and whirled its large, fatty tail around to rotate its body the right way up. If the gecko spun too far, it could right itself again by rotating its ...

The gecko-inspired robot, developed at Yale, ... with legs that can change from the rounded limbs of a tortoise to the flexible, flat legs of a sea turtle. ...

They took high-speed video of 8 geckos doing 63 runs across a 35-centimetre-long basin filled with water. They found that geckos keep their heads 13.4 millimetres above the surface, on average ...

It’s actually Uroplatus garamaso, a newly identified species of leaf-tailed gecko. This animal is a dazzling camouflager — better than the chameleon — but it’s long been hiding in plain sight.

This means the front feet lose their grip, with the rear legs hanging on for dear life. When the gecko pitches back, it also pushes its tail into the trunk to help dissipate energy from the collision.

Pygmy possums would be unlikely to share their box with the spiders; in 2019, a huntsman, which can be six inches from leg to leg, reportedly ate a pygmy possum in Tasmania.

Geckos would definitely medal in a contest for nature’s best feet. The lizard’s sticky toes, covered in tiny hairs, mean it can climb across ceilings in a fantastic feat of evolution.