A remarkable collection of fossils has been unearthed in Florida after a sinkhole swallowed a group of animals. 500,000 years ...

Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what would become Florida. That sinkhole in the state’s wooded Big Bend region ...

Researchers have identified a giant flying squirrel fossil from a cache of unusual animal remains dug out of an ancient ...

giant armadillos, sloths and possibly a new species of tapir. Around 500,000 years ago, before the river flowed over the site, a sinkhole opened up in Florida’s Big Bend region and became a ...

An ancient species of giant flying squirrel was found in a sinkhole lake fossil site in eastern Tennessee. Photo by Dan ...

A remarkable collection of fossils has been unearthed in Florida after a sinkhole swallowed a group of animals ... Among them is Holmesina, a now-extinct genus of giant armadillo-like mammals.

The Gray Fossil Site was once an ancient sinkhole lake surrounded ... Ages led to the isolation of these giant flying squirrels in warmer refuges like Florida, and ultimately contributed to ...

These giant flying squirrels once glided through the landscape of Southern Appalachia around 4.7 million years ago, ...