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 ...
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 ...
About 5 million years ago, a giant flying squirrel, the size of a cat, glided over the forests of what is now Tennessee, ...
The Gray Fossil Site, overseen by the Don Sundquist Center of Excellence in Paleontology at East Tennessee State University, ...
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 discovery ...
"It is amazing to imagine these giant flying squirrels gliding over rhinos and mastodons," said paleontologist Joshua Samuels.
A prehistoric giant flying squirrel once glided over ancient Appalachia but went extinct as the climate cooled. Its fossils, ...
Now, they are adding giant flying squirrels to the picture. Researchers discovered a partial fossil of a giant flying squirrel estimated to be about 5 million years old at the Gray Fossil Site at ...
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WSMV) - East Tennessee State University has announced the discovery of a giant flying squirrel at its Gray Fossil Site and Museum. According to ETSU, the giant flying squirrel ...
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a giant flying squirrel? Yes, a giant flying squirrel was uncovered at the Gray Fossil Site and Museum. The discovery offers insight into past environments and animal ...
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 looked ...
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 ...