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 ...

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.

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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — A giant flying squirrel fossil was found by the Gray Fossil Site and Museum, East Tennessee State University (ETSU) announced Monday. Joshua Samuels, the head ...

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 ...

Researchers in Australia have discovered fossils of two enormous predators that lived alongside one another, upending ideas about how the ancient ecosystem operated down under 120 million years ago.