What non-bird creatures have wings?

Question

My daughter and I are trying to come up with creatures other than birds and insects which have wings--Any others aside from bats? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Just birds, insects, and bats. There are other animals that have flaps of skin used for gliding, such as flying squirrels, some lizards, etc... but they are not true wings.

Answer 2

flying fish have wings. There is even a lizard in South America that has wings of a sort as does the flying squirel. Both the flying fish and the lizard use the wings to glide. On the other hand the peguins use their wings not to fly but to swim through the water. Many birds including the Manganser, Comerants, and Anhinga use their wings not only to fly but also to pursue their prey under water.

One of my favorite insects is the dragon fly. They have two sets of wings and many are very colorful.

The largest flying bird is the Great Bustard weighing 40 lbs.

Bird with the largest wingspan is the Wandering Albatross 12 ft.

In the plant families, many seeds have what might be considered wings of a sort. The maple seed for example and the dandelion. There are many others that with a little imagination might be considered to have wings.

Answer 3

Just to be especially pedantic.... there have been cats born with malformed wings... but they've never been able to fly.

As has already been mentioned: Birds, Bats, Insects, Pterosaurs (extinct).

Take note though, and this is very important: The wings that birds, bats and pterosaurs have are conversions of their forelimbs... and while independantly evolved in each case, have evolved in a very similar manner. Insect wings on the other hand are completely and utterly different (they're not limbs at all)... and in my opinion should be given an entirely different name to represent this. Afterall, to group birds and insects together as "things that have wings" is suggestive of the very worst kind of polyphyly.

Oh.. and remember... Pterosaurs were NOT dinosaurs. Thankyou. ^_^

Answer 4

I'll include the ones already mentioned, to make the list more complete.

Powered Flight
-Birds
-Bats
-Insects
-Pterosaurs

Gliding Flight
-Flying Squirrels
-Flying Snakes
-Flying Dragons (Draco genus - Not the fantasy kind)
-Flying Fish
-Microraptor gui (A dinosaur)

There are more gliders, but those cover some of the main ones.

A few wikipedia references if you want to know more about some of them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microraptor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysopelea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterosaur
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_lizard

Answer 5

Well flying fish, what about excint animals? You could do all different types like Pterosaurs, there's none really living you didn't state. A type of frog, though it does not have wings. Maybe sugar gliders, flying squrriels.

Answer 6

The Flying fish

Answer 7

rarely some other groups of animals have wings some fishes and some reptiles have wings.In jurassic period (when dianosaurs lived 206 to 144 million years ago) there was one group of dianosaurs had wings they are called as pterosaurs

Answer 8

The only animals that have wings past or present are:

birds
insects
bats
pterosaurs,such as the pteranodan.

Answer 9

There are even frogs that can glide form tree to tree with the webbing on their feet. cool...
Kuhl's Flying Gecko is a gliding gecko

Answer 10

Bats =D
They're mammals not birds!