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Forest researchers in north-central Minnesota are bringing the little-analyzed world of an elusive night creature into the light. There is a dearth of state research about flying squirrels, a ...

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 ...

The Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) is a nocturnal and arboreal rodent that inhabits the boreal taiga forests from eastern Russia to Finland and Estonia. Despite its wide distribution, ...

Flying squirrels constitute a clade of nocturnal gliding rodents distributed across temperate and tropical forests of Asia, Europe and North America. Their ecological dynamics are shaped by a ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of giant flying squirrel leaping onto tree branch (Credit: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license) Recently analyzed fossils finally ...

The Siberian flying squirrel is considered an umbrella and indicator species. This means that protecting it could also benefit a host of other forest-dependent wildlife. The Siberian flying squirrel ...