When watching a gecko climb up a vertical wall with ease, one may wonder if this is due to having sticky feet, really sharp ...

The setae and spatulae are flexible and thus can conform to microscopic irregularities ... area of interaction is large, they allow geckos to stick to nearly any surface. Furthermore, the toes on ...

They are easily formed and broken again, and only occur over short distances, like when the molecules on the gecko’s feet are very close to the molecules of the wall. The distance between the ...

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 ...

So they've kind of split them into millions of little hairs that you can only see under a microscope. These are called seta. ANDY TORBET:'Geckos have over 2 billion seta on their feet.