I’ve always found the critters that are not well known or the ones that are mysterious to be the most fascinating. A good ...

Their eyes are large, helping these nocturnal mammals navigate the dark, and their fur color and markings vary by species. Some flying squirrels have only one mating cycle per year but others ...

Watch a rare video of a flying squirrel gliding through trees, shared by Indian Forest Service officer Shivakumar Gangal, and ...

If you had told me that this animal exists, 2 years ago when I got selected in the Indian Forest Service, I would have ...

A flying squirrel showed off its ability to glide from tree to tree while under a spotlight in a forest in India recently. Shivakumar Gangal, a member of the Indian Forest Service, captured this video ...

Dreys are shaggy masses of leaves nestled against a tree trunk or cupped in a fork of branches 20 to 40 feet above the ground ...

It featured Formosan giant flying squirrels – nocturnal, cat-sized mammals with bushy tails and a wing-like membrane called a patagium, which they use to glide. These squirrels were living in ...

West Virginia northern flying squirrels can also be identified by their long whiskers, which are common to nocturnal animals. The squirrels' distinctive, sail-like patagia (folds of skin between the ...

I often enjoy the more common side of nature, the nature in our own backyards or neighborhood park that we see every day: for example, the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). It’s ...