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 ...

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 ...

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 – 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 ...

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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 curator at ...