colugos

And, no, I am not talking about the flying lemurs, aka colugos, aka dermopterans: they aren't primates, though they are close relatives.

ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

Genetic and morphological characters show that the colugos in Indonesia represent several new species.

Archive 2008-11-01 2008

Unlike ‘flying squirrels’ (rodents) and ‘flying phalangers’ (marsupials), colugos incorporate the tail into the gliding membrane.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

Unlike ‘flying squirrels’ (rodents) and ‘flying phalangers’ (marsupials), colugos incorporate the tail into the gliding membrane.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

Pettigrew et al. (1989) further argued that colugos (aka flying lemurs, or dermopterans) were also part of the megabat-primate clade, and essentially late-surviving relics which resembled the common ancestor of the megabat-primate clade.

Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

Pettigrew et al. (1989) further argued that colugos (aka flying lemurs, or dermopterans) were also part of the megabat-primate clade, and essentially late-surviving relics which resembled the common ancestor of the megabat-primate clade.

We flightless primates Darren Naish 2006

The accompanying image by Peter Schouten [click for larger version], commissioned by John Pettigrew, depicts the 'flying primate' hypothesis in graphic form: note that colugos and megabats branch off from the primate lineage, and aren't alongside microbats.

We flightless primates Darren Naish 2006

The accompanying image by Peter Schouten [click for larger version], commissioned by John Pettigrew, depicts the 'flying primate' hypothesis in graphic form: note that colugos and megabats branch off from the primate lineage, and aren't alongside microbats.

Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

Now, new molecular and genomic data gathered by a team including Webb Miller, a professor of biology and computer science and engineering at the Penn State University, has shown that the colugos -- nicknamed the flying lemurs -- is the closest group to the primates.

Speedlinking 11/1/07 William Harryman 2007

Janecka et al3: Our data show that colugos are the closest living relatives of primates and indicate that their divergence occurred in the Cretaceous.

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