Our earliest mammalian ancestors avoided the dominant dinosaurs by only coming out at night and having uniformly dark, ...

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The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

The early mammals living alongside the dinosaurs might have all had dark-coloured fur. Living a nocturnal lifestyle, the ...

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

Nestled in the heart of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Antiques on Pierce is not your average antique store. Oh no, this place is the ...

A prehistoric giant flying squirrel once glided over ancient Appalachia but went extinct as the climate cooled. Its fossils, found at the Gray Fossil Site, reveal a surprising connection to Eurasian ...

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 ...

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.

This species of flying squirrel has previously been discovered in sites in Europe and Asia dating to ... Instead, they are more closely related to giant squirrels in Japan, China, and Indonesia.

A tiny, elusive moth species that can only feed on one kind of tree has been spotted in Germany after more than a century of going unseen in Europe. Stigmella torminalis, a pygmy moth with a ...

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