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Euw! Gecko feet are freaky!

By bioephemera on January 2, 2009.

Dude, I knew gecko feet had some amazing physical properties, but I didn't know they bent backward! Check this out:

The video is by John Stevens by way of Heather at Cabinet of Wonders.

(While writing this post, I got a little sad: someday YouTube will cease to work, and all YouTube links embedded in blog posts will be broken, and the posts will cease to be useful. The internet is too young to have accumulated much urban blight, but eventually a Google search is going to be choked by abandoned crap. That is, unless the Google of the future designs its engines to filter out old content, in which case old blogs will be nearly impossible to find - far harder to find than if we had a physical presence. Oh well. Never mind; carry on with the gecko feet.)

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