Draco lizards are small gliding reptiles found across Southeast Asia’s tropical forests. With wing-like membranes and graceful glides, Draco lizards are true “dragons” of the wild.

The dragons in the Harry Potter movies fly using wings made from modified forelimbs, just as birds and bats do. But real dragons — gliding lizards of the genus Draco — form their “wings” from flaps of ...

The flying dragons of the hill forests of South India don’t proclaim their presence with fanfare. Instead, they stay hidden from predators, virtually indistinguishable from the lichen-speckled ...

Consternation sent animals racing to their jungle cover on the Island of Komodo (one of the Dutch East Indies). A bird droned like a million flies above the trees. It did not flap its wings. Alan ...