Fossil discoveries provide valuable insights into extinct species, revealing their behaviors, environments, and relationships to modern animals. One such mystery surrounded Mixodectes pungens, a small ...

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 gleaned from analyzing ...

The planet’s earliest mammals are an important part of our ... Mixodectes pungens lived in western North America during the early Paleocene–about about 66 to 56 million years ago.

Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

The discovery offers valuable information about how ancient mammals diversified to fill ... occupying a unique ecological niche in the early Paleocene. Its larger body size and leaf-heavy diet ...