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With large goggle-like eyes, webbed feet, and a full-body wingsuit made of skin, the flying lemur looks like an unconventional superhero soaring through the trees. Its elusive nature and peculiar ...

Flying Lemur Credit: Wikimedia Commons Despite the name, this animal neither flies nor is a lemur. The flying lemur, or colugo, glides using a skin membrane stretching between its limbs. It's more ...

Colugos are one of those animals that look so unusual you might think they were computer-generated. They are often called flying lemurs, yet that name is misleading. They are not lemurs, and they do ...