Thus, flying squirrels don't actually fly but glide, always losing altitude, guiding themselves with their flat, bushy tail. Most glides are 25 to 50 feet and end at the trunk of another tree.

Before we tell you where you can spot them, you should know that the "flying" part of flying squirrel is not quite correct. It would be more accurate to call them gliding squirrels.

Most of them are squirrel-like rodents; there are about 50 species of so-called flying squirrels, with the majority living in southeastern Asia and only three species in North America.

But despite squirrel body sizes not being as constrained, the body sizes and characteristics of gliding squirrels are no more diverse than non-gliding squirrels.

The gliding squirrels can be found over a large swath of Canada, Alaska and in northern parts of the United States.

Laboratory studies of gliding mammals, such as the North American flying squirrel, have given hints to how these animals leap and glide, but Byrnes and former post-doctoral fellow Andrew J. Spence ...

Oldest skeleton of a fossil flying squirrel casts new light on the phylogeny of the group. eLife, 2018; 7 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.39270 ...

February marks the start of the northern flying squirrel’s mating season in Montana. (The nocturnal mammals are common in the Bob and the state.) On a typical night during this period, each ...

Despite its name, the southern flying squirrel doesn’t actually fly. A more appropriate name, according to the National Wildlife Foundation (NWF), would be the “gliding squirrels.” ...