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A flying squirrel, certain types of snakes and a flying fish. These all can glide through the air without wings.
Flying snakes glide by jumping out of trees and flattening their bellies while stretching extra belly skin out wards to create more space for the air to press against. Then they glide through the air and into other trees. It's more like a controlled fall-glide a then flying.
Because they have large pectoral fins that are almost like wings. They can glide through the air, almost flying.
Flying fish has the ability to glide or seemingly fly through the air. The average life span of a flying fish in the wild is 5 years.
Flying squirrels are able to fly with the help of a fold of skin that extends along the squirrel's backside from the wrist to the hind foot or ankle.
Gliding is often called flying, although it really isn't. Flying squirrels and sugar gliders are two types of animals that glide. They use the skin under their arms to glide on the air.
Snakes in the genus Chrysopelea are gliding animals. No other snakes can glide.These snakes are often called 'flying snakes', but of course, they do not actually fly. They can glide for amazing distances. This is accomplished by their flattening their long ribs to turn themselves into (essentially) a very long wing, and then undulating through the air as though swimming.
The animal known as the sugar glider is a marsupial with the capability to glide through the air in a flying fashion. The sugar glider is rare and related to the possum.
They don't actually fly, they glide on the air using their skin flaps to create "lift".
For it to glide through the air.
That is the correct spelling of the verb "glide" (through the air or across a surface).