About 5 million years ago, a giant flying squirrel, the size of a cat, glided over the forests of what is now Tennessee, ...

Researchers have identified a giant flying squirrel fossil from a cache of unusual animal remains dug out of an ancient ...

giving scientists more clues about how the creatures made their way to North America. The finding of the species, part of the extinct Miopetaurista genus of flying squirrel, was “puzzling” to ...

A prehistoric giant flying squirrel once glided over ancient Appalachia but went extinct as the climate cooled. Its fossils, ...

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The Gray Fossil Site, overseen by the Don Sundquist Center of Excellence in Paleontology at East Tennessee State University, ...

Researchers identified the flying squirrel fossil among a cache of ... the oldest Miopetaurista fossil ever discovered in North America to date. The Gray Fossil Site sinkhole formed and filled ...

An ancient species of giant flying squirrel was found in a sinkhole lake fossil site in eastern Tennessee. Photo by Dan ...

A giant flying squirrel – about the size of today ... “Finding Miopetaurista in North America was quite unexpected as this genus is only known from Eurasia,” said Casanovas-Vilar.