The discovery comes from the Gray Fossil Site, a prehistoric treasure trove unearthed 25 years ago. This latest find confirms the presence of Miopetaurista, a genus of giant flying squirrels ...

An ancient species of giant flying squirrel was found in a sinkhole lake fossil site in eastern Tennessee. Photo by Dan ...

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

Three flying reptiles from Earth's distant past ... the flattened pterosaurs from most other sites around the world look like prehistoric roadkill. The Araripe fossils have enabled researchers ...

Fossil remains found by a Chilean research team in the Atacama Desert have been determined to belong to a prehistoric pterosaur flying dragon, it was reported. The flying reptile was said to have ...

The bone is the first evidence found in North America of ancient crocodilians feeding on the giant prehistoric flying reptiles, the study added.

Recently analyzed fossils finally confirm a longtime paleontological theory: Flying squirrels the size ... which lured prehistoric mammal species east after crossing the Bering Land Bridge.

The paper also says this bone is the first evidence in North America of ancient crocodilians opportunistically feeding on these giant prehistoric flying reptiles. Other examples of Azhdarchid bones ...