From left: The "GeckskinTM" team, Al Crosby, Dan King, Michael Bartlett, Duncan J Irschick. Right: a 100 sq cm piece of "Geckskin" holding 297 lbs on glass

"GeckskinTM" is inspired by gecko feet and uses synthetic "tendon", "skin" and "pad" to generate unparalleled adhesion

Read about GeckskinTM in Wired magazine and the Daily Mail, or listen to a podcast on NPR

Al Crosby and Duncan J Irschick were awarded a $25,000 CVIP grant to develop the Geckskin technology for commercialization

Duncan Irschick, Al Crosby and Walter Federle were awarded a $900,000 grant from the Human Frontiers Science Program to examine scaling of adhesion from insects to lizards

Check out the recent sections about our work on rapid evolution in island lizards from Carl Zimmers new book "The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution"" and Richard Dawkin's bestseller "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution"

Duncan Irschick was honored as a Fullbright Specialist! This allows countries to invite him to visit and teach techniques in functional morphology and behavioral ecology