There are several squirrel species found throughout our state, except for the Florida Keys. Of the entire Florida squirrel family, the illusive flying squirrel is the only nocturnal species (active at ...

A study of gliding animals has challenged the idea that evolutionary innovations - adaptations that bring new abilities and advantages - spur the origin of other new body types and other ...

Frankly, it never would have occurred to me to test flying squirrels in a wind tunnel. I could just see it: little furry things buffeted by the artificial gale, their tiny eyes squeezed shut as they ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a… flying squirrel in North Alabama? When most Alabamians think of squirrels, the picture that’s likely to come to mind is a small, ...

An American Museum of Natural History paleontologist and his colleagues have named a new order of mammals based on their description of a fossil of a bat- or squirrel-sized Mesozoic mammal, called ...

An eagle soars overhead, wings spread, making only minute steering adjustments of wing and tail feathers. It’s gliding on air currents and may travel considerable distances that way, with relatively ...

Gliding squirrel-like mammals that lived with the dinosaurs at least 130 million years ago may have conquered the skies around the same time as birds, or even earlier, scientists say. The newly ...