CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Researchers who were dropped off by helicopter in a largely inaccessible and remote canyon in South Africa say they have discovered a type of gecko that hadn't been seen in ...

Water repellence is an extremely important feature for animals. Different animals have different types of skin, with some being better at repelling water than others. One example is the gecko, whose ...

Pseudogonatodes fuscofortunatus is a new gecko species discovered by a team of researchers led by the University of Texas at Arlington. A new species of miniature gecko, not much longer than a match ...

He may only weigh 3 ounces, but this little lizard just helped make veterinary history. Veterinarians at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, DC, say they successfully treated a leaf-tailed ...

April 28 (UPI) --Animal rescuers in Britain said an Ikea shopper returned to their home and discovered a potted plant they purchased at the furniture store had a stowaway -- a gecko lizard. The RSPCA ...

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For years, researchers have been trying to build a robot that mimics the gecko lizard's ability to scale walls and ceilings of any texture, even glass. But duplicating the specialized biology of the ...