Their eyes are large, helping these nocturnal mammals navigate the dark, and their fur color and markings vary by species. Some flying squirrels have only one mating cycle per year but others ...

In New York State there are not one, but two species of flying squirrel. The northern flying squirrel can generally be found ...

Little red flying foxes are tree-dwelling bats. In daytime they can be seen roosting in giant camps that may include as many as a million individuals. The bats are indeed efficient fliers ...

These included the first fully aquatic mammals (whales) and flying mammals (bats), as well as rodents and primates. This sudden expansion of species diversity into new ways of life is known as ...

"I got into flying lemurs, and that led me into research on all gliding mammals." The purpose of using a wind tunnel to study flying squirrels—the test subjects, by the way, are models that ...

Barred, great horned, and screech owls, goshawks, and red-tailed hawks are some of the documented predators of the northern flying squirrel. Mammals that are known to prey upon this rodent include the ...

the ability to bear their young alive and nurse them - bats are the only mammals to truly fly. The commonly named "flying!' squirrels and "flying" lemurs actually glide or parachute by means of a ...

Bats were last to the race. These flying mammals took flight after dinosaur demise, appearing in the Eocene epoch, 50 million years ago. Most flying vertebrates evolved shorter bony tails as they ...

A furred membrane (patagium) extending between the wrists of the front feet and the ankles of the hind feet distinguish both species of flying squirrels inhabiting the Adirondacks. Flying squirrels ...