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 giant flying squirrel holds close family ties to cousins ... It was a landmass that connected Asia and North America ...

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Paleontologists have found the 4.9-million-year-old (Early Pliocene) fossilized remains of the extinct flying squirrel Miopetaurista webbi in Tennessee, the United States. The occurrence of the genus ...

A giant flying squirrel the size of a house cat swooped ... Miopetaurista is not closely related to the squirrels we now see in North America; they have in fact more in common with the giant ...

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

A giant flying squirrel. Credit: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license ... Scientists had suspected that this type of squirrel may have lived in North America, based on a few uncertain fossil records in ...

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

The findings, published in the Journal of Mammalian Evolution, detail the presence of Miopetaurista, a genus of giant flying squirrel previously known only from Asia and Europe. Researchers state that ...

A giant flying squirrel—about the size of today's house ... "Finding Miopetaurista in North America was quite unexpected as this genus is only known from Eurasia," said Casanovas-Vilar.