When was the flying squirrel discovered

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Global Wildlife Conservation is now Re:wild! Re:directing now According to the Australian Museum, whose scientists were part of the team that discovered the new species, the woolly flying squirrels could be over 3-feet-long and weigh over 2. Scientists have known of the woolly flying squirrel, Eupetaurus cinereus, which is among the rarest and least studied mammals in the world, for a long time. For much of the 20th century, it was thought to be extinct, until it was rediscovered in in northern Pakistan.

But after a careful review of museum specimens and published records of Eupetaurus, scientists found that the genus occurs in three distinct regions in the Himalayas--northern Pakistan and north-western India particularly Uttarakhand; south-central Tibet, northern Sikkim and western Bhutan; and north-western Yunnan, China.

They have been named Tibetan woolly flying squirrel Eupetaurus tibetensis and Yunnan woolly flying squirrel Eupetaurus nivamons. Research associate Stephen Jackson said the squirrels live at altitudes up to 4,m or 15, feet, more than half the height of Mt Everest largely in areas uninhabited by people, and are some of the least known animals in the world, with only a handful of people having seen the mammal glide. According to the research paper, Eupetaurus cinereus is threatened by habitat loss, owing to large-scale clear cutting of forests, particularly the destruction of high-elevation pine woodlands.

It is also threatened to a lesser extent by the expansion of agriculture, small-scale logging, infrastructure development and human settlements.