"It is amazing to imagine these giant flying squirrels gliding over rhinos and mastodons," said paleontologist Joshua Samuels.

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

Researchers identified the flying squirrel fossil among a cache of animal remains that were unearthed in Tennessee 25 years ago. The specimen belongs to an extinct genus called Miopetaurista ...

Now, they are adding giant flying squirrels to the picture. Researchers discovered a partial fossil of a giant flying squirrel estimated ... Fossil Site provided new information and helped to ...

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

An ancient species of giant flying squirrel was found in a sinkhole lake ... but the specimen of the Gray Fossil Site provided new information and helped to confirm that somehow these giant ...