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 ...

North America has ... was discovered at the Gray Fossil Site, an incredibly rich site located in Washington County, Tennessee. This species of flying squirrel has previously been discovered ...

"It is amazing to imagine these giant flying squirrels gliding over rhinos and mastodons," said paleontologist Joshua Samuels.

That warmer climate allowed the squirrel’s ancestors to cross into North America, likely gliding through dense, humid forests like those preserved in the fossil record at Gray millions of years ago.

A team of paleontologists from East Tennessee State University (ETSU) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona found a fossil of a giant flying squirrel ... from the North American fossil ...

“The fox squirrel is the largest tree squirrel in North Carolina, nearly twice the size of the more common gray squirrel,” said the state’s Facebook post. How big do they get? “When I saw ...

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 ...