Even after they're no longer connected to a lizard brain, gecko tails can flip, jump and lunge in response to their environment — and may even be able to evade predators. Researchers have known for ...

As a last-ditch effort to distract predators and escape, some animals will remove a limb or organ from their body. Geckos take this already hardcore survival strategy to insane new levels — their ...

The species Geckolepis megalepis, which measures up to 2.8 inches from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail, is native to Madagascar. It is a member of a group of called fish-scale geckos that ...

Ardian Jusufi, who works at the interface between robotics and biology, has set up several experiments in a wildlife reserve in the rainforests of Singapore to explore how geckos can use their tails ...

Geckos have a neat superpower that allows it to stay dry at all times: water droplets basically get catapulted off their skin like popping popcorn. It’s pretty nuts to see the water launch in the air ...

Stuttgart – Geckos’ impressive climbing abilities give them agility rarely surpassed in nature. With their highly specialized adhesive lamellae on their feet, geckos can climb up smooth vertical ...

Of the animals discovered, 50 spider species, three frogs and a gecko appear to have never been described in scientific literature before, said Conservation International. The Washington DC-based ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Many geckos inhabit trees, often living high in the canopy. Relying on their incredible adhesive strength to help them break their fall, they jump from trees, and land on either ...

A scientific study published in Nature Communications Biology shows that geckos are capable of gliding. In the publication titled Tails stabilize landing of gliding geckos crashing head-first into ...