Disjunct populations occur in the Black Hills and Appalachians. The northern flying squirrel occurs throughout the Adirondacks, replacing the southern flying squirrel at higher elevations. Northern ...

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) ...

Road accidents seem to be behind the natural selection of black squirrels in US cities, as they may be easier than grey ones for motorists to spot and swerve to avoid. Grey squirrels (Sciurus ...

There are about 50 species of flying squirrels ranging across most of North America down into Central America, and stretching from Southeast and Northern Asia into Siberia and Scandinavia.

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 ...

A flying squirrel showed off its ability to glide from tree to tree while under a spotlight in a forest in India recently. Shivakumar Gangal, a member of the Indian Forest Service, captured this video ...

HABITAT: The San Bernardino flying squirrel lives in high-elevation, mixed-conifer forests dominated by Jeffrey pine, white fir and black oak between 4,600 and 7,550 feet. Flying squirrels thrive in ...

Giant flying squirrels that were as big as house cats glided across North America around 5 million years ago, researchers have discovered, after identifying an unusual fossil found inside an ...