Before gliding, a flying squirrel bobs and rotates the head, perhaps to gauge the route, and then leaps from a high perch, the feet and cartilaginous spurs extended to stretch the membranes. The ...

Have you ever paused to truly observe a squirrel? These common creatures possess a wealth of fascinating traits and behaviors ...

A red-and-white giant flying squirrel surveys Foping National Nature Reserve in China. (Photo: Burrard-Lucas Photography) Gliding through trees by moonlight, these animals can seem like ghosts.

A flying squirrel peers from its nest box, placed on a dead eastern hemlock, quietly watching me, the real space invader, wander through my backyard.

The Eastern Flying Squirrel can glide for extended distances (sometimes exceeding 150 feet) between trees but is not capable of true, powered flight.

A baby flying squirrel will take its first flight at around three months of age. Before that, they’re used to scavenging and foraging on their feet across trees at about 6 weeks of age.

A new species of flying squirrel has been found in the Pacific Northwest. It’s been dubbed Humboldt’s flying squirrel, in honor of the great naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. The discovery ...

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 world contains more than 200 species of squirrels, but the ones on the UA campus are almost all eastern gray squirrels. They are mammals and their scientific name is Sciurus carolinensis.