A new study suggests that a tree-dwelling salamander may be able to control its grip on trees' bark by pumping blood in and ...

A gecko-inspired slip-resistant polymer could be incorporated into shoe soles to prevent people slipping on ice and other ...

Slips and falls account for millions of injuries each year. Researchers in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces took ...

Taking high-resolution photographs of lizard feet to measure the size of adhesive sub-digital toepads. Long-term lizard study challenges the rules of evolutionary biology Long-term lizard study ...

A solution to injuries from slips and falls may be found underfoot—literally. The footpads of geckos have hydrophilic ...

The green basilisk lizard is also called a plumed or double ... they can drop from a tree into the water and sprint, upright, about 5 feet per second across the surface. To accomplish this ...

Geckos belong to the lizard family, and they can be anywhere from 2 to 24 inches long. They help us by eating insects, and they are found in many warm climates throughout the southeastern and ...

These geckos have adapted their webbed feet not only to help them stay atop, but to bury beneath the dunes of the Namib Desert. Strictly nocturnal lizards, they spend the day in self-dug burrows ...

The region's shinnery oaks are only four or five feet high, but they provide food, shade and a breeding ground for the small, brown dunes sagebrush lizard — otherwise known as the sand dune lizard.