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

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

Fossil discoveries provide valuable insights into extinct species, revealing their behaviors, environments, and relationships ...

The anatomy of the animal's limbs and claws indicate that ... for a tree-dwelling mammal in North America during the early Paleocene -- the geological epoch that followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene ...

One of them, Mixodectes pungens lived in western North America during the early Paleocene–about about 66 to 56 million years ago. It was first discovered over 140 years ago by paleontologist ...

In the Paleocene the summer water temperature in ... In the PETM the heat drove tropical species toward the Poles, and animal and plant species from all continents could cross land bridges and ...

That might not sound like much, but it effected radical change for the sea, the land, and the animals that inhabit the planet today. The event is known as the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum ...