Renae Swayser holds a southern flying squirrel. On a wintry Saturday morning, a group gathered in the Poconos to look for a specific rodent - the northern flying squirrel. Renae Swayser, an ...

A furred membrane (patagium) extending between the wrists of the front feet and the ankles of the hind feet distinguish both species of flying squirrels inhabiting the Adirondacks. Flying squirrels ...

A new species of flying squirrel has been found in the Pacific Northwest. It’s been dubbed Humboldt’s flying squirrel, in honor of the great naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. The discovery ...

Bats are the only mammals that truly fly, but they aren't the only ones you might see swooping overhead at dusk. For tens of millions of years, a variety of other furry vertebrates have also been ...

A remarkable fossil discovery has been made in the Appalachian region! Scientists have uncovered a 4.9-million-year-old giant flying squirrel (Miopetaurista webbi) within a sinkhole at the Gray Fossil ...

Their results revealed an unexpected twist. The woolly flying squirrel is actually two distinct species that live thousands of miles apart on the roof of the world: the Tibetan woolly flying ...

The species: The northern flying squirrel has skin flaps that extend between its wrists and ankles, allowing it to glide from tree to tree. It glides an average distance of 65 feet. Status ...

There is a dearth of state research about flying squirrels, a diminutive, rarely seen critter with outsized skills. Minnesota has two species of the little aerialists, a southern and a northern ...

Two species of tropical flying squirrels have worked out that if they nibble grooves around nuts to store them between tree branches, they are preserved for longer. When you purchase through links ...

Flying squirrels, like so many overlooked species, depend on dead and dying trees, called snags, for survival. We humans have a bad habit of tidying up nature, cutting down “messy” deadwood ...

There are hundreds of squirrel species around the world and five in Pennsylvania: Eastern Gray Squirrel American Red Squirrel Fox Squirrel Northern Flying Squirrel Southern Flying Squirrel The ...