The list of animals that can race across water is short, but it has a new entry: the Asian house gecko. It uses a halfrunning, halfswimming motion to propel itself across water at great speeds. Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, tested several geckos in the lab to study the mechanics of their strange movement.

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