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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

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 ...

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 ...