Neon blue-tailed tree lizards are perfectly happy scurrying from branch to branch in their arboreal homes, but it wasn't clear whether they simply leaping between branches or glide. Researchers ...

The first thing Colin Walker does every morning is count the geckos. And this particular morning, he is coming up one short. One skunk gecko, to be precise. He eventually spies its dark head poking ...

If you can't jet out of Boston to a tropical getaway this winter, Geckos: Tails to Toepads might just put you in a warm weather mindset. The new show at the Museum of Science opens January 22, ...

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 ...

A gecko's tail is a wondrous and versatile thing. In more than 15 years of research on geckos, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and, more recently, the Max Planck Institute for ...

When leaping geckos crash head-first into vertical surfaces such as tree trunks, they're able to hang onto that surface instead of bouncing off and falling to the ground. Scientists have discovered ...

A bright-eyed Abby Desmarais is spending her morning watching bug-eyed, splay-toed, cricket-eating, wall-clinging and crazily fascinating geckos at the Museum of Science, in Boston. “They’re all ...

Geckos are nature’s champion climbers. With remarkable ease, they can scamper across ceilings and up smooth vertical surfaces, and they do so at speed. A vertically running gecko can cover 15 times ...

Dec. 7 (UPI) --Walking on water was a skill most scientists thought was reserved for small creatures, like spiders and various water bugs, as well as a handful of larger ones, like the basilisk lizard ...