Nature

This lizard flies without wings, using its own ribs as a parachute

Southeast Asia's Draco lizards have elongated ribs connected by skin that fold flat against the body but fan out into wing-like membranes, letting them glide over 60 metres between trees without flapping. A separate throat flap, unrelated to the gliding membranes, is used purely for signalling to other lizards.

Jimmy A. McGuire and Robert Dudley, The Biology of Gliding in Flying Lizards (Genus Draco) and Their Fossil and Extant Analogs — Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2011

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