A bill seeking to strengthen protection for at-risk wildlife is being backed by several Pennsylvania conservation groups. The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, currently sitting in the U.S. Senate’s ...

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 ...

At a fossil site unique to the Appalachian region, an international team of researchers uncovered the first giant flying squirrel fossil ever discovered at the recently discovered hotbed of creatures ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Six long years have elapsed since I last wrote about southern flying squirrels. That column ran on Dec. 31, 2017, and was made possible by the doyen of flying squirrels, Professor Don Althoff of the ...

GRAY, Tenn. (WCYB) — Workers at the Gray Fossil Site and Museum made a rare discovery of a giant flying squirrel fossil. This squirrel is estimated to have lived 5 million years ago. Museum leaders ...

Researchers have identified a giant flying squirrel fossil from a cache of unusual animal remains dug out of an ancient sinkhole in Tennessee 25 years ago. The fossil sheds light on how flying ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — A giant flying squirrel fossil was found by the Gray Fossil Site and Museum, East Tennessee ...

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 curator at ...

You might have observed a squirrel sitting on a tree and nibbling a fruit, but have you ever seen the creature jumping from ...

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 looked ...