This species of flying squirrel has previously been discovered in sites in Europe and Asia dating to the Miocene and Pliocene but was not confirmed to be within North America. “Finding Miopetaurista ...

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

Researchers have identified a giant flying squirrel fossil from a cache of unusual animal remains dug out of an ancient sinkhole in Tennessee 25 years ago. The fossil sheds light on how flying ...

giving scientists more clues about how the creatures made their way to North America. The finding of the species, part of the extinct Miopetaurista genus of flying squirrel, was “puzzling” to ...

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, ...

About 5 million years ago, a giant flying squirrel, the size of a cat, glided over the forests of what is now Tennessee, alongside rhinos and mastodons. This unexpected discovery sheds light on the ...

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

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