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. February 24, 2025 0 ...

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 ...

A giant flying squirrel the size of a house cat swooped through the skies of Southern Appalachia some 4.75 million years ago. This is the revelation of a team of paleontologists from the East ...

Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer, Shivakumar Gangal, posted a video featuring a flying squirrel gracefully gliding its way through two trees, which seemed to be a rare sight.

Researchers have identified a giant flying squirrel species, Miopetaurista, at the East Tennessee State University Gray Fossil Site in Tennessee, offering new insights into Southern Appalachia’s ...

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.

An ancient species of giant flying squirrel was found in a sinkhole lake fossil site in eastern Tennessee. Photo by Dan Meyers via Unsplash Scientists had an idea of what prehistoric Appalachia ...

The Indian giant flying squirrel is listed in Schedule II of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. Renowned nature and wildlife photographer Kamal Goswami captured a stunning image of the creature in ...

Yet, when people do encounter flying squirrels in my area of New York’s Catskill Mountains, the animals are often dismissed as pesky attic invaders, and their magic is downgraded to mere nuisance.