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 ...

It includes forelimbs, hind limbs, a partial skull with teeth, spinal column, and rib cage. Based on the anatomy of the animal's limbs and claws, it was a tree-dweller and could vertically cling ...

The anatomy of its limbs and claws suggests ... The researchers compared the new Mixodectes pungens skeleton to those of ...

For the first time, the remarkable features of Australia's unique wildlife—from platypus, bilby, kangaroo, koala and emu to ...

The nearly complete skeleton of a male Eoarctos ... A future find might change the story, but the anatomy of Eoarctos resembles that of other shell-eating mammals, and the snails were both ...

Tibor Csörgő, a researcher at ELTE, has been collecting animal skulls for decades to teach anatomy to biologists. The shape of the skull varies considerably between species and breeds ...

"Rocks from this interval of time have a notoriously poor fossil record and the discovery and description of a fossil mammal skull is an important step forward in documenting the earliest ...

A fossil of a newly identified animal found east of Colorado Springs has revealed new information about life on Earth after the mass extinction of dinosaurs. Skull and jaw fragments from what's ...

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 ...