A flying squirrel peers from its nest box, placed on a dead eastern hemlock, quietly watching me, the real space invader, wander through my backyard.

The Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) is a nocturnal and arboreal rodent that inhabits the boreal taiga forests from ...

Here in New Jersey we do have not just one but two species of flying squirrel, the Northern flying squirrel and the Southern flying squirrel. But as you can imagine, neither wears aviator caps nor ...

Earlier in July, Fourth Place Medal's inimitable Maggie Hendricks posed an essential question for all true U.S. Olympic fans: Which of the nation's two athletes nicknamed 'The Flying Squirrel ...

Researchers have identified a giant flying squirrel fossil from a cache of unusual animal remains dug out of an ancient sinkhole in Tennessee 25 years ago. The fossil sheds light on how flying ...

The North American flying squirrel fluoresces pink at night under ultraviolet light, but the purpose of the pink color is still a mystery to researchers.

Palaeontologists 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 ...

Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Shivakumar Gangal has shared elusive footage of a flying squirrel gliding between trees. The Andhra Pradesh cadre member said the rare sighting of the nocturnal ...

While studies in Michigan, Wisconsin and Ontario have documented flying squirrel shifts due to climate change, there’s no data on where each species currently lives in Minnesota.

A Wisconsin biologist made an unexpected discovery with an ultraviolet flashlight in hand one crisp spring night: a hot pink flying squirrel.

A giant flying squirrel the size of a house cat swooped through the skies of Southern Appalachia some 4.75 million years ago. This is the revelation of a team of paleontologists from the East ...

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.