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Used to commute and escape predators, patagia also help male flying dragons reptiles show off to females during courtship displays.

From National Geographic • Feb. 7, 2024

Flying dragons glide through the treetops using their colorful patagia, wing-like structures supported by their ribs, says Jim McGuire a flying lizard specialist at the University of California at Berkeley.

From National Geographic • Feb. 7, 2024

Each of the 50 known flying dragon species has patagia with different hues and patterns.

From National Geographic • Feb. 7, 2024

Bats have done something no other mammal ever has: the leathery-winged beasts evolved powered flight thanks to specialized membranes called patagia connecting their limbs and digits to the rest of their body.

From Scientific American • Oct. 1, 2023

At his hands anatomy and markings become lost in a scientific jargon of patagia, jugum, discocellulars, phagocytes, and so on to the end of the volume.

From Moths of the Limberlost by Stratton-Porter, Gene