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Researchers discover prehistoric giant flying squirrel
A giant flying squirrel, roughly the size of a house cat, once soared through the forests of what is now Southern Appalachia. Gliding above mastodons, rhinos, and red pandas, these agile creatures ...
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Flying squirrels the size of cats soared over prehistoric Appalachia
Although no longer native to North America, the ancestors to today’s aerodynamic rodents likely made the most of the Early Pliocene’s warmer climate. The new findings come from an ...
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Giant Flying Squirrel Soared Through The North American Skies Nearly 5 Million Years Ago
They then vanished from the country’s fossil record during the Late Miocene (around 9 million years ago) and then reappeared in the Pliocene and Pleistocene eras (5.3 and 2.6 million years ago). The ...
LaCONES study reveals climate’s impact on primates
Hyderabad: A recent study led by scientist Govindaswamy Umapathy's lab at the CCMB-Laboratory for Conservation of Endangered ...