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5 million-year-old tooth from Tennessee belongs to house cat-size flying squirrel
Researchers have identified a giant flying squirrel fossil from a cache of unusual animal remains dug out of an ancient ...
Ancient Giant Flying Squirrel Discovered in Tennessee
A prehistoric giant flying squirrel once glided over ancient Appalachia but went extinct as the climate cooled. Its fossils, ...
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‘Giant’ Flying Squirrel Pulled From Ancient Sinkhole In Appalachian Mountains
Researchers at theGray Fossil Site and Museum in northeastern Tennessee, have recently uncovered the remains of a 4.9-million ...
Flying squirrels the size of cats soared over prehistoric Appalachia
It is amazing to imagine these giant flying squirrels gliding over rhinos and mastodons living in the forests of Tennessee.’ ...
North America Had Giant, Cat-Sized Flying Squirrels 4.75 Million Years Ago
"It is amazing to imagine these giant flying squirrels gliding over rhinos and mastodons," said paleontologist Joshua Samuels.
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Editor’s Notes: Squirreling away fossil knowledge
Sometimes there is a method to my development of an idea for a column. Sometimes I’m scrolling through news items and see the ...
‘Incredibly rare’ giant flying squirrel fossil found in Tennessee — with ‘puzzling’ past
The Gray Fossil Site was once an ancient sinkhole lake surrounded by a dense forest of hickory, oak and pine trees, ...
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5-million-year-old fossil reveals ‘giant’ flying squirrel in North America
Researchers in Tennessee discover extremely rare fossil of a giant flying squirrel that arrived during the last Ice Age.
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Ancient Giant Flying Squirrel Found in Tennessee
An ancient giant flying squirrel once glided through the ancient forests of Southern Appalachia in Tennessee, USA, coexisting ...
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‘Incredibly rare’ giant flying squirrel fossil found in Tennessee — with ‘puzzling’ past
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 ...