One of the many reasons why the leopard gecko is so well-loved is its delightfully goofy, ever-present grin. Here are 10 ...

As such, the robot’s body is encased in a kirigami skin, which is a patterned, flexible material that produces asymmetric friction that functions like an earthworm’s setae, enabling the robot to apply ...

A cave-dwelling fish has been swimming the waters of India unknowingly. But researchers have just discovered the mysterious ...

Alongside a paper published in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems, the team also released footage of the robot in action.

When a cuckoo’s stomach lining becomes a pincushion of spikelike caterpillar setae, it upchucks the lining. By then, it has grown a new stomach lining and is ready to start anew. Baltimore ...

(1990), Wolfe and Felgenhauer (1991), Mikami and Takashima (1993) and Lemmens and Knott (1994), in which substantial morphological changes occurred in the digestive system during metamorphosis by the ...

Like other geckos, they possess specialized toe pads covered with microscopic hair-like structures called setae that generate van der Waals forces, allowing them to climb vertical surfaces and even ...

The division of the genital double-somite and the proportions of the spines and setae on the P5 are also distinctive characters. Possibly, a complex of cryptic or semi-cryptic species is hidden under ...

The authors examined the caterpillars’ setae, which are organs that detect the sounds of predators’ wingbeats, and found that electrostatic charges can deflect the setae. The findings suggest that ...