New remarkably complete skeleton of Mixodectes reveals arboreality in a large Paleocene primatomorphan mammal following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction. Scientific Reports , 2025; 15 (1 ...

A study published by Scientific Rreports sheds light on the anatomy, behavior, and evolutionary significance of Mixodectes pungens, an ancient mammal that lived shortly after the extinction of the ...

The database was published in the journal Scientific Data.. Tibor Csörgő, a researcher at ELTE, has been collecting animal skulls for decades to teach anatomy to biologists. The shape of the ...

The animal’s jaws left the paleontologists with a puzzle. The lower jaw of the best Eoarctos skeleton was damaged. Something had happened during the animal’s life that caused it to lose ...

The last common ancestor of placental mammals was likely to have a shrew-like skull, researchers say (Creative Commons) Researchers say they have discovered a ‘new model’ for mammalian ...

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 ...