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Stories about: patagium

Top 10: The Weirdest Ways of Flying There are three groups of living animals that we associate with the flight: birds, bats and insects. But there are also other groups of animals that can manage to take off and "defeat" gravitation on shorter or longer bursts. They are generally called gliders. Here are classical examples. 1. There are over 52 specie... 16 June 2007 07:16 GMT A Flying Dragon Roaming the Air In Dinosaur Times Scientists have recently discovered a lizard shockingly similar to current flying dragons roaming the air during the dinosaur era. Exactly like in the flying dragons, the ancient arboreal lizard presents a wing-like membrane stretched across elongated ribs. Named Xianglong zhaoi, the gliding lizard lived during the E... 20 March 2007 05:39 GMT