Christmas colors disguise gliding lizards in the rainforest Date: December 24, 2014 Source: University of Melbourne Summary: By mimicking the red and green colors of falling leaves, Bornean ...

Hold on tight The dragons in the Harry Potter movies fly using wings made from modified forelimbs, just as birds and bats do. But real dragons — gliding lizards of the genus Draco — form their ...

Draco (the Latin word for dragon) is a genus of modern-day gliding lizards often called “flying dragons.” These lizards predominantly live in Southeast Asia’s rainforests.

An ancient arboreal lizard coasted through the air using a winglike membrane stretched across elongated ribs, a new fossil reveals. Dubbed Xianglong zhaoi, the gliding lizard lived during the ...

Gliding lizard fossil (Xianglong zhaoi). The 15.5-cm long skeleton was found in the Liaoning Province of northeastern China, with its most striking feature the elongated ribs that helped to spread ...

An extinct species of lizard used a wing-like membrane supported by the animal’s elongated ribs for gliding through the air according to Chinese researchers. Gliding lizard fossil (Xianglong zhaoi).

The postcranial skeleton of the gliding reptile Coelurosauravus elivensis Piveteau, 1926 (Diapsida, Weigeltisauridae) from the late Permian Of Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology , 2022 ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new small gliding reptile in 220 million-year-old ... but Fraser noted that they have much shorter necks and therefore are more like modern gliding lizards.

A near complete fossil of a lizard has been found inside the stomach of a microraptor, a kind of feathered dinosaur that lived around 100 million years ago. The lizard must have been swallowed ...

The work suggests that populations of the gliding lizard, Draco cornutus, have evolved extendable gliding membranes, like wings, which closely match the colours of falling leaves to disguise ...