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

A giant flying squirrel, roughly the size of a house cat, once soared through the forests of what is now Southern Appalachia. Gliding above mastodons, rhinos, and red pandas, these agile creatures ...

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

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 ...

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

A giant flying squirrel — about the size of today’s house cats — once soared through the skies over what is now Southern ...

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

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. The discovery ...

House cats often kill flying squirrels ... Home range and microhabitat partitioning of the southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans). Journal of Mammalogy, 68:243-245. Linzey, D.W. and A. V. Linzey.

According to ETSU, the giant flying squirrel, which is about the size of the modern house cat, once soared through the skies of southern Appalachia. ETSU said that when they arrived in Tennessee ...

“This is something that’s really completely unrelated.” The giant flying squirrel was around the size of a house cat and weighed approximately three pounds, according to Samuels. “Flying ...