Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.

Skeleton shows Mixodectes pungens lived in trees and primarily ate leaves during the Paleocene epoch, highlighting its unique ...

A Harp seal was rescued after being found sick and dehydrated on Brant Beach on Long Beach Island, New Jersey.

Then, they searched previously published research for mentions of each species’ established activity pattern: nocturnal, ...

Brooklyn College/CUNY Graduate Center Associate Professor of Anthropology Stephen Chester and a team of researchers have ...

An ancient animal bone discovered in a quarry about 20 years ago has been donated to a museum. The bone from a palaeoloxodon ...

A mammal that was once considered eradicated from the state of Ohio is now colonizing again in the state, biologists say.

The scientific breakthrough, announced on this day in 1997, proved that geneticists could clone an adult mammal, giving rise ...

Some of these giant vegetarians were as tall as a 3-story building. Microscopic analysis of their teeth, bones and eggshells reveals how they grew, what they ate and even their body temperature.

Last year was a busy year for The Marine Mammal Center, responding to more than 900 marine mammals between San Luis Obispo and Mendocino counties.