Researchers at theGray Fossil Site and Museum in northeastern Tennessee, have recently uncovered the remains of a 4.9-million-year-old giant flying squirrel (Miopetaurista webbi). The site, which has ...

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

A species from the ends of the earth The sugar glider is not just a cute squirrel. No, this little aerodynamic prodigy comes to us straight from Australia and New Guinea. Its superpower?

Flying snakes are technically better gliders than their more popular mammalian equivalents, the flying squirrels. Scientists don’t know how often or exactly why flying snakes fly, but it’s ...

“One of the last places you’d expect to find a squirrel glider is in a box of biscuits at a restaurant in the Toowoomba CBD,” she said in her post. “A hospitality worker got the surprise ...