Abstract
It's a lizard! It's a plane! It's Supergecko! Researchers at UC Berkeley (where else) put a gecko into a wind tunnel to watch it fly. News about gecko's magic feet that allow it to run vertically up glass is almost old hat now. 1 Even a gecko can lose its footing, though, and thereon hangs a tail. Publishing in PNAS, 2 (the cover story of the March 18 issue), the team had some superlatives to share about these critters that skitter: