Geckos are famous for their ability to scale vertical walls and even hang upside down, and now scientists understand more about how the expert climbers can pull off these gravity-defying feats ...

Both geckos were fully grown when they were marked – so they could be even older than the 60 and 64 years recorded. That’s far older than the average lifespan of geckos worldwide, at only ...

The tail reflex helped the geckos to deal with minor slips but even if it fails, the geckos can cope. Junufi found that during larger slips, the gecko presses most of its tail against the wall ...

Many geckos have these super-toes, but not all of them. There are around 1,450 species of geckos, and around 40 per cent have non-stick feet. A small number are legless, and have no feet at all.

Geckos can grip and climb almost anything almost like they can defy gravity but how? Geckos can grip and climb almost anything. Walking up walls, hanging upside down… even from glass. It’s ...

The geckos' latest space quest began July 18, when the Russian space agency Roscosmos launched a capsule with five of the lizards and several other experiments into space for a two-month mission.

Size One thing they don't have in common is size. Geckos come in a wide range of sizes. The smallest gecko (and the smallest lizard) is the tiny dwarf gecko. It grows to miniscule 0.6 inches (1.6 ...

Geckos fall somewhere in between. They are too large to rely solely on surface tension and too small to generate sufficient force to run along the surface of water without sinking. And yet they ...