Loading Finding the answer involved taking a bunch of salamanders from five different species, and a mini wind tunnel — a shrunken version of the type you might see skydivers practising in.

A salamander that lives high up in the California coastal redwoods has some pretty impressive aerial skills, a UC Berkeley study has found. Watch these ‘skydiving’ salamanders that parachute ...

Some salamanders make incredible skydivers, according to a newly published study from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. The wandering salamander, or Aneides vagrans ...

What happens when you put salamanders in a wind tunnel? They stretch their limbs out like a human skydiver, a position they take in the wild to slow their descent when jumping out of trees.

The behavior confused scientists since salamanders do not have obviously aerodynamic bodies. Scientists have found that by assuming a "skydiving" posture, the lizards can slow a fall by 10% ...

Parabolic-flight data 1 indicate that some reptiles and amphibians floating in microgravity adopt skydiving postures ... and most — including one salamander species — don’t vomit, which ...