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But the annals of flight carry the tales of plenty more pioneering species. From prehistoric flying fish and jet-propelled squid to flying trees and truly weird gliding reptiles, these are the aeronauts you never knew existed. A golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) (Credit: Markus Varesvuo / NPL) There's a good reason why the story of flight.
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Some, like flying squirrels, are familiar, while others, like flying squid, not as much. Here's our list of nine animals that have found unexpected ways to defy the laws of gravity. 1
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From tree snakes to flying fish, discover some creatures that use the air to their advantage. 1. Colugos. The colugo ( Cynocephalidae) can glide for 100 metres or more between trees, making it one of the most skilled gliding mammal. It's found in southeast Asia and is sometimes referred to as the flying lemur.
Everyone knows that birds, bees and bats can fly. But that only scratches the surface of the
Birds can fly, we get that, but here are a few flying animals aren't avian in the slightest - this isn't the most exhaustive list of them, but it is one of the oddest.
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A number of animals are capable of aerial locomotion, either by powered flight or by gliding. This trait has appeared by evolution many times, without any single common ancestor. Flight has evolved at least four times in separate animals: insects, pterosaurs, birds, and bats. Gliding has evolved on many more occasions.
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Unusual Animals. Scientists have estimated that there are 8.7 million animal species on Earth. Some of these are fierce (lions, sharks, tigers). Some are adorable (rabbits, deer, otters). And others are, well, really weird. Across the globe, you'll find unique animals that exhibit truly remarkable and bizarre features and behaviors.
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Japanese Flying Squid. Invertebrate. They use the technique of jet propulsion (propulsion by ejecting a high-speed jet of liquid or gas backward) to propel out of water. They glide (at 36 ft/second) by spreading their arms and fins and create an aerodynamic lift. Wallace's Flying frog.
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10 Wild Turkeys. Flying Turkeys, 2011-12-05 Thanksgiving. Sevierville, TN USA. We tend to associate turkeys more with Thanksgiving than the skies. Generally, whenever you see a turkey in the wild, it's on land. So it may come as a surprise that wild turkeys can actually fly albeit only short distances. However, when they fly, they fly at.
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Life in that part of the world must be like a game of Pitfall. 5. Flying Frog. Finally, we move past horror animals into merely curious. Flying frogs have apparently evolved from several different lines of frog, in most places in the world where there are tree-dwelling tropical frogs.
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The pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus northropi is the largest known flying animal to have ever existed, living on Earth more than 67 million years ago. Now new research on the creature and its newly discovered smaller relative, Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni, gives us a better idea of how Q. northropi flew and got airborne to begin with.
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10 - Flying Ray: Mobula - Original Source Used: >> Click Here <<. Manta Rays seen underwater are beautiful and highly graceful creatures that can grow to be rather large indeed. But they make this top 10 because they have been studied soaring over 3 meters upwards into the air! While they might not have the softest of landings, seeing one.
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Colugo (Family: Cynocephalidae) Colugos are arboreal mammals native to Southeast Asia. They belong to the order Dermoptera and are also known as 'flying lemurs.'. There are 2 extant genera and only one extant species in each of these - the Sunda and the Philippine flying lemur.
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Gliding is a skill many animals have mastered - even some that don't have wings. Meet six of the strangest.. Flying fish can stay in the air for up to 45 seconds and travel almost half a.
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Plenty of animals fly; this is no surprise to anyone who actually comes from Earth. However, there are plenty of "flying" animals that are really gliding ver.
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When I was a child in Indiana, I would hang out in my kindergarden teachers yard lined lot with big conifers. Many nests in those trees. But also looking over North Salem road from about 15 feet up I would see flying squirrels on occasion in the evenings, flying across the road. To the conifers from the old woods and oldfields acroos the road.
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What if you saw a snake hurtling at you through the air with fangs bared? Wouldn't that be terrifying? Or better still, what do you think of spiders flying f.
