Adult cockroaches can live up to an additional year, during which females produce an average of 150 young.

I've started to wonder about my revulsion for cockroaches. While there is nothing remotely human about them, when running away to avoid my wrath they do seem to possess some human characteristics. It's almost as though they're looking over their shoulders at me, then scanning around for some way to escape, in a very human kind of way.

Biologist Robert Full shares slo mo video of some captivating critters. Take a closer look at the spiny legs that allow cockroaches to scuttle across mesh and the nanobristle packed feet that let geckos to run straight up walls.