Sorry folks, you can all stop asking. Humans won't evolve into Spider-Man.

The devastating news came out of a study from a Queensland researcher and his former colleague at the University of Cambridge, who discovered humans would need US size 114 feet to stick to walls like Spidey.

University of the Sunshine Coast animal ecophysiology lecturer Christofer Clemente worked with lead author David Labonte in Cambridge to catalogue 225 different climbing species.

They studied spiders, frogs, insects and lizards and a mammal from mites through to geckos to find out why the native Australian lizard was the biggest species capable of clinging to walls with "sticky" pads on its feet.