These giant flying squirrels once glided through the landscape of Southern Appalachia around 4.7 million years ago, ...

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

Researchers at theGray Fossil Site and Museum in northeastern Tennessee, have recently uncovered the remains of a 4.9-million ...

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

The Paraceratherium, also known as Indricotherium, is an extinct genus of giant rhinoceros that lived approximately 34 to 23 million years ago during the Oligocene and Miocene epochs. It is considered ...

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

The giant panda is a species of bear that is found in the mountains of central and western China ... giant pandas are under extreme threat from habitat loss in the form of deforestation for timber and ...

"We are not inevitable." It's the extinction of land-dwelling dinosaurs, and possibly the extinction of a competing group of mammals, that gave our primate ancestors the opportunity to thrive and ...

Goliathus cacicus is the smaller of the two giant beetle species; it’s up to 95mm long ... facing increasing threats due to deforestation, land conversion, mining and climate change.

Deadly drownings of animals in water canals for irrigation and other purposes have been observed in various countries. The ...

Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...