Before gliding, a flying squirrel bobs and rotates the head, perhaps to gauge the route, and then leaps from a high perch, the feet and cartilaginous spurs extended to stretch the membranes. The ...

A flying squirrel peers from its nest box, placed on a dead eastern hemlock, quietly watching me, the real space invader, wander through my backyard.

A new species of flying squirrel has been found in the Pacific Northwest. It’s been dubbed Humboldt’s flying squirrel, in honor of the great naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. The discovery ...

A red-and-white giant flying squirrel surveys Foping National Nature Reserve in China. (Photo: Burrard-Lucas Photography) Gliding through trees by moonlight, these animals can seem like ghosts.

The Eastern Flying Squirrel can glide for extended distances (sometimes exceeding 150 feet) between trees but is not capable of true, powered flight.

The flying squirrels are a tribe of squirrel. There are 43 species in this tribe, the largest of which is the woolly flying squirrel. The term "flying" is somewhat of a misnomer, since flying ...

Using this method, the Eastern Flying Squirrel can glide up to 90 feet! All three of the above-mentioned squirrels will sleep in tree hollows if they’re available, ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — A giant flying squirrel fossil was found by the Gray Fossil Site and Museum, East Tennessee State University (ETSU) announced Monday. Joshua Samuels, the head ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — A giant flying squirrel fossil was found by the Gray Fossil Site and Museum, East Tennessee State University (ETSU) announced Monday.

A baby flying squirrel will take its first flight at around three months of age. Before that, they’re used to scavenging and foraging on their feet across trees at about 6 weeks of age.

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 ...