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The overachieving Wallace's flying frog wasn't content to just hop and swim. Thousands of years of watching birds navigate the rain forest and avoid predators by taking to the sky appears to have ...
Fascinated by his amphibious gift, Wallace painted a watercolor of the flying frog, then an unknown species. He later discussed the species, named Rhacophorus nigropalmatus or “Wallace’s frog,” as an ...
The newly identified Rhacophorus medogensis, or “Xizang flying frog,” belongs to a genus of flying frogs characterized by their webbed fingers and toes that form a Y-shape and expand into ...
Over 350 new species including a miniature deer, a “flying frog” and a 100 million-year old gecko have been discovered in the Eastern Himalayas, a biological treasure trove now threatened by climate ...
Now that’s tea-riffic! You’ve probably heard of the phrase ‘when pigs fly’, but what about flying frogs? This became a reality in 2000, when the British-Dutch physicist, Sir Andre Geim ...
We were on the lookout for Wallace’s flying frog in Borneo – a crazy parachuting frog. This frog lives in the high canopy of the rainforest and comes down to the forest floor to mate and lay ...