Tag: northern flying squirrel

With their habitat broken up by farms and other land uses, southern flying squirrels have smaller densities in the Midwest, researchers found. “They are isolated by a highly fragmented system,”...

Biologists and conservationists often advocate for the use of corridors and connectivity to increase species dispersal and biodiversity. But can those corridors also bring opportunities for invasions of nonnative species,...

Three species of flying squirrels, including southern (Glaucomys Volans), northern (Glaucomys sabrinus) and Humboldt’s flying (Glaucomys oregonensis) squirrels, turn a bright pink when they’re under ultraviolet light, researchers found. Biologist...

Certain populations of small, dark flying squirrels that live in cool forests along the Pacific Coast are actually a unique species that had never been classified before, researchers discovered. They...

If you look into the tree canopies of the Stanislaus-Tuolumne Experimental Forest in California, you might spot a small northern flying squirrel catching air with its pseudo wings as it...