The patagium (pl.: patagia) is a membranous body part that assists an animal in obtaining lift when gliding or flying. The structure is found in extant...

flight, the back arches, forming the patagium into a cambered surface, and the forelimbs grab the front of the patagium, forming a straight front edge to...

colugo is the patagium, the weblike membrane that connects its limbs to allow for gliding. Unlike other mammals with patagia, its patagium extends from...

skin that extends between their paired limbs. This gliding membrane, or patagium, runs from the shoulder blades to the fore paws, from the tip of the rear-most...

bat), exceptionally as much as 400 m (1,300 ft). This is achieved by the patagium, skin spread out between its limbs. There are several subspecies of the...

possess a patagium, which is a skin membrane used in gliding from tree to tree. In this particular species of flying squirrel, their patagium spans between...

with their very long spread-out digits covered with a thin membrane or patagium. The smallest bat, and arguably the smallest extant mammal, is Kitti's...

in colour with dark flecks. The patagium of the male is tan to bright orange with dark banding. The female's patagium has irregular markings rather than...

trees to forage for insects and glides to adjoining trees by expanding the patagium, loose skin on the sides of the body which is supported by elongated ribs...

but they are able to glide from one tree to another with the aid of a patagium, a furred skin membrane that stretches from wrist to ankle. Their long...

uniting the forelimb with the body. The patagium of a bat has four distinct parts: Propatagium: the patagium present from the neck to the first digit...

species is known from various localities in forested areas of Sulawesi. The patagium of the male is yellow in colour and has a network of brown lines radiating...

their patagium (gliding membrane) is supported on elongated ribs rather than the more common situation among gliding vertebrates of having the patagium attached...

eutriconodonts. A fossil Volaticotherium has an exquisitely preserved furry patagium with delicate wrinkles and that is very extensive, "sandwiching" the poorly...

Sciuridae. It is capable of gliding flight using a skin membrane, the patagium, stretched between front and hind legs. It is found in mainland Southeast...

to 230 grams. Flying squirrels do not actually fly, they glide using a patagium created by a fold of skin. From atop trees, flying squirrels can initiate...

large dark eyes and flattened tails. They have a furry membrane called a patagium that extends between the front and rear legs and is used to glide through...

members of Haramiyida and the eutriconodontan tribe Volaticotherini had a patagium akin to those of flying squirrels, allowing them to glide through the air...

point to the fact that the presence of the structures extend past the patagium, and the presence of both aktinofibrils and filaments on Jeholopterus ningchengensis...

actually fly like a bat) long distances between trees by spreading out its patagium, skin between its limbs. The Bhutan giant flying squirrel has a narrow...

distinctive feature of flying squirrels is the furry glide membrane or patagium, a flap of skin that stretches between the front and rear legs. By spreading...

Terrorsmith, and Mongrel. Slodd was a slothful, off-white parasite with large patagium beneath his arms. Venev was an envious, green, six-armed parasite responsible...

actually fly like a bat) long distances between trees by spreading out its patagium, skin between its limbs. It is a herbivore and the female has one, infrequently...

List of soaring birds Ratites Tradeoffs for locomotion in air and water Patagium Pifer, Emily K. McCormick, Ruby (ed.). "The Evolution of Birds and the...

a cartilaginous rod that aids them in maintaining the extension of the patagium when in flight; unlike flying squirrels, their cartilage originates at...

tips of the fingers, toes, and nails. This kite-shaped skin is known as a patagium, which is expanded for gliding. It can glide over a distance of 100 m with...

Patagium impressions of Confuciusornis (a, b) compared to the patagium of a chicken (c, d)...

euharamiyids which existed in Asia during the Jurassic period. It possessed a patagium between its limbs and presumably had similar lifestyle to living flying...

form, including being able to sprout quills around his neck, extend a patagium to glide through the air like a flying squirrel, and most significantly...

actually fly like a bat) long distances between trees by spreading out its patagium, skin between its limbs. The Hodgson's giant flying squirrel is native...