Adorable Japanese Flying Squirrel Looks Just Like a Furry Cartoon Character originally appeared on PetHelpful.

Flying squirrels, like so many overlooked species, depend on dead and dying trees, called snags, for survival. We humans have a bad habit of tidying up nature, cutting down “messy” deadwood ...

The flying squirrel has a thin, stretchable wing-like membrane of skin between its front and hind limbs. This feature, called patagium, allows the rodent to move through air.

Think Wild, the Central Oregon wildlife hospital and conservation center, has taken in a female orphaned Northern flying ...

Think Wild, Central Oregon’s wildlife hospital and conservation center, said Monday it recently admitted an orphaned northern ...