Almost! 'Cept lizards back home don't usually have wings. [He snickers, then thinks for a moment. Holding up an index finger in a 'Wait' gesture he spends a few seconds rooting around in his pack, then pulls out a small notebook usually used for creature observation notes. The D-Terminal is propped up nearby and he starts drawing something on one of the pages, holding it up when he's finished. It's two quick sketches, one of a draco lizard similar to this, and another with the 'wings' expanded, like this.]
All draco lizards- like Draco volans, the one we spent the day with -have adapted the ability to spread their ribs out with skin stretched between them, giving them the ability to glide. Helping this are flattened back legs and neck flaps for additional stabilization in the air. Some glides have been as long as 200 feet, and even longer!
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Almost! 'Cept lizards back home don't usually have wings. [He snickers, then thinks for a moment. Holding up an index finger in a 'Wait' gesture he spends a few seconds rooting around in his pack, then pulls out a small notebook usually used for creature observation notes. The D-Terminal is propped up nearby and he starts drawing something on one of the pages, holding it up when he's finished. It's two quick sketches, one of a draco lizard similar to this, and another with the 'wings' expanded, like this.]
All draco lizards- like Draco volans, the one we spent the day with -have adapted the ability to spread their ribs out with skin stretched between them, giving them the ability to glide. Helping this are flattened back legs and neck flaps for additional stabilization in the air. Some glides have been as long as 200 feet, and even longer!