Flying Mammals Lived With Dinos

by Squirrel Dish on December 18, 2006

Interesting…

Dec. 13, 2006 — A new fossil discovery from China shows that a tiny squirrel-like creature glided through the air during the age of dinosaurs, more than 75 million years earlier than scientists had documented that ability in a mammal.

The creature might have even beaten birds into the air.

Like today’s flying squirrels, it stretched a furry membrane between its limbs to provide an airfoil for gliding after it jumped from a tree. But it’s not related to anything living today.

Read the entire story on Discovery.

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