A team of paleontologists from East Tennessee State University (ETSU) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona found a fossil of a giant flying squirrel ... squirrels gliding over rhinos and ...

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 fossils in question were found in Washington County, Tenn. “Finding Miopetaurista (the giant flying squirrel) in North America was quite unexpected as this genus is only known from Eurasia ...

Fossils of a prehistoric giant flying squirrel, Miopetaurista, found at the Gray Fossil Site in Tennessee ... Weighing around three pounds, Miopetaurista’s lightweight build was well-adapted for ...

Miopetaurista weighed around 3.3 pounds (1.5 kilograms), much heavier than the flying squirrels inhabiting Tennessee today. For example, Tennessee's northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus ...

An ancient giant flying squirrel once glided through the ancient forests of Southern Appalachia in Tennessee, USA, coexisting with rhinos, mastodons, and red pandas. Scientists say that discovering ...

Islanders have been warned by the States of Guernsey to not "gather" where a grey squirrel has been sighted. It comes after the Guernsey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA ...

The bird was also seen standing on a car park fence, scouring around the cars and hedges and flying up onto a nearby ... sighting for the person who spotted it." The buzzard is now the most ...

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 ...

These giant flying squirrels had a lightweight build, weighing around three pounds – and were quite agile in the treetops. When they arrived in what is now Tennessee, the world was much warmer than it ...

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