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Giant Flying Squirrels Once Lived in North America

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Feb 25, 2025 - 15:15
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Giant Flying Squirrels Once Lived in North America
Life appearance of the fossil flying squirrel Miopetaurista neogrivensis showing the animal ready to land on a tree branch. Image credit: Oscar Sanisidro / ICP.

Paleontologists have found the 4.9-million-year-old (Early Pliocene) fossilized remains of the extinct flying squirrel Miopetaurista webbi in Tennessee, the United States.

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