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Geckos can run on water at speed by slapping the surface rapidly and using surface tension to keep its body above the surface.

The acrobatic lizards are agile on land sprinting across the ground, able to walk up vertical walls and hang from the ceilings or glide through the air. Now scientists have found out just how they can scuttle rapidly across the surface of water without ending up going for a swim.