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 ...

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 ...

The dusky gliding lizard (Draco obscurus) is one of a dozen or so species of “flying dragons”. These lizards are excellent gliders thanks to extendable wings made from elongated rib bones.

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...