“The fox squirrel is the largest tree squirrel in North Carolina, nearly twice the size of the more common gray squirrel,” said the state’s Facebook post. How big do they get? “When I saw ...

have just revealed the existence of a new fossil specimen belonging to a giant flying squirrel. This large critter once glided through the landscape of Southern Appalachia, around 4.7 million ...

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 ...