Their eyes are large, helping these nocturnal mammals navigate the dark, and their fur color and markings vary by species. Some flying squirrels have only one mating cycle per year but others ...

Flying squirrels have small rounded heads, large black eyes, prominent ears, long whiskers, and well-furred tails. Their fur is dense, soft and silky. The tail is horizontally (dorso-ventrally) ...

Buff- and charcoal-colored fur, large eyes, a long flat tail and "wings" of loose skin that stretch from the forearms to the hind legs make the New World flying squirrels handsome though somewhat ...

According to ETSU, the prehistoric squirrels weighed about 3 pounds. The creatures are believed to be related to the Petaurista family, which includes a living group of large flying squirrels in Asia.

The native rodents, southern flying squirrels, were brought to the center this winter in two large groups after the squirrels’ Western Pennsylvania homes were no longer suitable. Katie Kefalos ...

Examination of the tooth unveiled that these flying squirrels were twice as large as present-day tree squirrels and about the same size as a house cat. Experts believe they must be around 1.5 ...

Flying squirrels thrive in forests with big trees and closed-canopy cover, large snags that provide nesting cavities, downed logs that foster the growth of the truffles they eat and understory cover ...

Some species can glid for up to about 46 metres. The earliest fossil skeleton of flying squirrel dates back to 11 million years ago and is very similar to the large flying squirrel species that ...