In the gardens and parks of Toyota City, Japan, a small creature turned out to be a new species. Getty Images/iStockphoto To many across the islands of Japan, small tree frogs, or amagaeru, are a ...

Inspired by the toe pads of tree frogs and crickets, researchers in India have created a form of sticky coating that is both strong and reusable. When conventional adhesive tape is pulled off a ...

A study into an endemic tree frog in Sri Lanka, Taruga eques, has found wide variations in both color and dorsal marking. The authors of the study say this high variance, or polymorphism, squares with ...

Have you felt as if someone were watching you, but when you look over your shoulder, no one is there? That’s not as odd as you might think. Lately, more big eyes have been watching us, but they don’t ...

Animals and nature have provided a fountain of inspiration and solutions to robotic researchers in the creation of bio-inspired-robots. In the case of researchers at the University of Leeds School of ...