spends hours overnight snapping gliding leaf frogs. One image in particular has captured the attention of numerous people online, as it showed a male with the spine of a palm tree, bactris major ...

SYDNEY — An Australian biologist and her Vietnamese colleagues have made a surprise discovery — a new species of flying frog gliding and ... has been named Helen's Tree Frog (Rhacophorus ...

A Rhacophorus dulongensis, or Dulongjiang tree frog, as seen from above ... sometimes referred to as flying or gliding frogs. These frogs cannot truly fly but “can soar and land gracefully ...

The researchers compiled the tree frog's genome and compared it with a closely related frog incapable of gliding. For a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA ...

This was how a juvenile Malabar gliding frog (Rhacophorus malabaricus), a rare ... The fingers and toes are like sticks to attach and walk through tree branches. Males are smaller than females.

Gliding has evolved at least twice among families of tree frogs, with some species capable of impressive aerial maneuvers such as banked turns and yawing. They have adapted these abilities thanks ...

The Javan gliding tree frog was seen doing pull-ups on a small branch, a headstand and a jump while balancing on a log, before giving a small wave to its audience. Lucky snapper Tanto Yensen ...

It is here that a local, Pravin Gaonkar, saw the phenomena of natural crossbreeding taking place between the male of the Malabar gliding frog and female of the common tree frog. The Malabar ...