In 16th century Scotland, the alchemist John Damian, who was known to expense a suspicious amount of whiskey in his experiments to find the elusive philosopher’s stone, decided he could fly. He ...

In the lush rainforests of Southeast Asia, there’s a peculiar creature known as the colugo, often misleadingly referred to as the “flying lemur.” Despite its name, it neither flies nor is it a lemur.

Among the gliding animals, the colugo or "flying" lemur of Southeast Asia is the champ. It's able to glide the length of two football fields with its doormat-sized skin flaps. Researchers are ...

Weighing as much as a chihuahua, the colugo is an evolutionary anomaly that glides through the Southeast Asian forests. But don't confuse it for a bat or monkey. Colugos look something like a cross ...

The colugo looks like something evolution made up on a dare. Often called the "flying lemur," it's neither a lemur nor ...

Colugos, often misidentified as flying lemurs, are unique mammals belonging to the Dermoptera order, closely related to primates. These nocturnal creatures possess a distinctive patagium, a skin ...

The flying lemur must be one of the most inaccurately named animals in the world, for it cannot fly and it isn’t a lemur. This is why most biologists prefer to refer to it by its other name – the ...

My companions scanned the treetops with binoculars and a thermal-imaging monocular. I stared at the branches and leaves, pretending I knew what to look for. It was a cool June evening just before ...

Berkeley -- The "flying" lemur of Malaysia is the champion of all gliding mammals, able to drop from the forest canopy, glide more than the length of two football fields, execute 90-degree turns and ...