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

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

A 62-million-year-old mammal fossil reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, plant-based diet, and evolutionary ties to primates ...

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

There is a feature in the Weston Mercury on a Northamptonshire couple celebrating 55 years together – and they spend each ...