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

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 — about the size of today’s house cats — once soared through the skies over what is now Southern ...

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 pandas. The discovery ...

For example, Tennessee's northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus) weighs up to just 2.5 ounces (71 grams), according to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a giant flying squirrel? Yes, a giant flying squirrel was uncovered at the Gray Fossil Site and Museum. The discovery offers insight into past environments and animal ...

As the latest in a suite of exciting and unexpected finds from the unusual landmark, the flying squirrel, the size of a house cat at three pounds, finds no relative in the modern-day animal that ...