The male wood duck is one of the most beautiful birds on Earth. We’re lucky we can see them almost any day of the week, any ...

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These giant flying squirrels once glided through the landscape of Southern Appalachia around 4.7 million years ago, ...

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

Sometimes there is a method to my development of an idea for a column. Sometimes I’m scrolling through news items and see the ...

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

An ancient giant flying squirrel once glided through the ancient forests of Southern Appalachia in Tennessee, USA, coexisting ...

The newly unearthed species, known as Miopetaurista webbi, was discovered at the Gray Fossil Site, an incredibly rich site ...

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

It is amazing to imagine these giant flying squirrels gliding over rhinos and mastodons living in the forests of Tennessee.’ ...

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

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