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

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

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

The newly unearthed species, known as Miopetaurista webbi, was discovered at the Gray Fossil Site, an incredibly rich site ...

A giant flying squirrel—about the size of today's house ... But their closest relatives are the giant flying squirrels in Japan, China and Indonesia. These giant flying squirrels had a ...

At a fossil site unique to the Appalachian region, an international team of researchers uncovered the first giant flying squirrel fossil ever discovered at the recently discovered hotbed of ...

Courtesy of ETSU (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license) The species’ closest relatives are reportedly the present-day giant flying squirrels in Japan, China and Indonesia, not the average squirrel seen in ...

A giant flying squirrel – about the size of today’s house cats – once soared through the skies over what is now Southern Appalachia, gliding above rhinos, mastodons and red ...

China and Indonesia.” “These giant flying squirrels had a lightweight build, weighing around three pounds — and were quite agile in the treetops.” “When they arrived in what is now Tennessee, the ...