The decidedly unattractive creature dominated the competition in the contest run by Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust, ...

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

Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

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

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million ...

Osteology is an area of anthropology that includes the study of human and animal bones and anatomy. This can help ... a bone can reveal about an animal. Skeletons are an absolute classic during ...

The researchers determined that the skeleton belonged to a mature adult that weighed about 1.3 kilograms, or 2.9 pounds. The anatomy of the animal's limbs and claws indicate that it was arboreal ...

For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly ...