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Giant Flying Squirrel Soared Through The North American Skies Nearly 5 Million Years AgoPalaeontologists from East Tennessee State University and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, have just revealed the existence of a new fossil specimen belonging to a giant flying squirrel.
Adults weigh 454-681 g (1-1.5 lb). The deciduous forests of the eastern half of North America provide optimum habitat for the gray squirrel, but the range includes portions of the mixed forest in ...
"It is amazing to imagine these giant flying squirrels gliding over rhinos and mastodons," said paleontologist Joshua Samuels.
a review of the North American record of the giant flying squirrel Miopetaurista (Rodentia, Sciuridae) with the description of new material from the Gray Fossil Site (Tennessee), Journal of ...
By contrast its nemesis, the grey squirrel, numbers 2.5 million ... As its natural habitat was the North American landmass, and freezing winters kept numbers down naturally, its impact on woodland and ...
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