It's rare to identify a new genus of mammals. Currently, there are only an estimated 1,360 mammalian genera. Well, 1,361 now thanks to Tous.

A study of gliding animals has challenged the idea that evolutionary innovations - adaptations that bring new abilities and advantages - spur the origin of other new body types and other ...

Small reptiles in tropical forests are easy to miss until they move. A rustle against bark, a flash of skin, then something ...

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 ...

Frankly, it never would have occurred to me to test flying squirrels in a wind tunnel. I could just see it: little furry things buffeted by the artificial gale, their tiny eyes squeezed shut as they ...

When you think back to about 160 million years ago, you most likely imagine a world roamed by the dinosaurs and not much else. In fact, that’s just the type of world that modern science fiction movies ...