GRAY, Tenn. (WCYB) — Workers at the Gray Fossil Site and Museum made a rare discovery of a giant flying squirrel fossil. This squirrel is estimated to have lived 5 million years ago. Museum leaders ...

Giant flying squirrels that were as big as house cats glided across North America around 5 million years ago, researchers have discovered, after identifying an unusual fossil found inside an ancient ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 marks one ...

At a fossil site unique to the Appalachian region, an international team of researchers uncovered the first giant flying squirrel fossil ever discovered at the recently discovered hotbed of creatures ...

A giant flying squirrel the size of a house cat swooped through the skies of Southern Appalachia some 4.75 million years ago. This is the revelation of a team of paleontologists from the East ...

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 marks ...

Sometimes there is a method to my development of an idea for a column. Sometimes I’m scrolling through news items and see the words “Flying squirrels the size of cats.” Well that’s something I need to ...

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 curator at ...