By mimicking the red and green colors of falling leaves, Bornean lizards avoid falling prey to birds whilst gliding, new research has found.

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 ...

The fossil halves of an ancient lizard-like creature were sold separately nearly a century ago and have resided at museums in ...

These unique features have earned the tiny lizard the title of “world’s first gliding reptile,” according to researchers from the French National Museum of Natural History in Paris and the ...

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 ...

Two other reptiles with similar gliding membranes are known from the Triassic, but Fraser noted that they have much shorter necks and therefore are more like modern gliding lizards.

Researchers have run through near-perfect fossils of the world's first gliding reptile with a fine-toothed comb and untangled hitherto unknown facets to discover it was a change in tree canopy ...

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

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 ...

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).

Reptiles, often overlooked, possess remarkable adaptations for survival. Some lizards can run on water, while others glide ...

By mimicking the red and green colors of falling leaves, Bornean lizards avoid falling prey to birds whilst gliding, new research has found.