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

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Researchers in Tennessee discover extremely rare fossil of a giant flying squirrel that arrived during the last Ice Age.

Some mammals found in Britain such as squirrels scramble around the forests. Others stand tall with giant antlers like the red deer, Britain’s largest land mammal. Perhaps you’ve seen ponies ...

The Gray Fossil Site was once an ancient sinkhole lake surrounded by a dense forest of hickory, oak and pine trees, ...

The giant panda was once widespread throughout southern and eastern China, as well as neighbouring Myanmar and northern Vietnam. But due to expanding human populations and development, the species is ...

Researchers have identified a giant flying squirrel species, Miopetaurista, at the East Tennessee State University Gray ...

Land mammals responded in kind ... which were fast ruling the waters in the absence of the giant mosasaurs and plesiosaurs of the Cretaceous. Squid and other soft-bodied cephalopods replaced ...