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

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

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

The giant flying squirrel holds close family ties to cousins ... It was a landmass that connected Asia and North America (Alaska). By the time they flew to Tennessee, the temperature on Earth ...

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

Paleontologists have found the 4.9-million-year-old (Early Pliocene) fossilized remains of the extinct flying squirrel Miopetaurista webbi in Tennessee, the United States. The occurrence of the genus ...

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

Researchers have identified a giant flying squirrel fossil from a cache of ... The fossil sheds light on how flying squirrels reached North America.