The Gray Fossil Site, overseen by the Don Sundquist Center of Excellence in Paleontology at East Tennessee State University, ...

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

The Giant Flying Squirrel: A Master Of The Treetops These ancient gliders, though seemingly similar to the smaller squirrels we see today, were uniquely adapted to life in the treetops.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Appalachians today might be tempted to think of these ancient critters as closely related to the squirrels they regularly see. But their closest relatives are the giant flying squirrels in Japan ...

Flying squirrels vanished from the North American ... continues to reveal new insights into Appalachia's ancient past. The site is up to a million years older than the two fossils found in Florida ...