Discovered in Australia, the fossils represent a new species that lived during the Miocene epoch and highlight how iron-rich ...

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

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.

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

But as the Paleocene epoch gave way to the Eocene ... For 40 years now Gingerich has been hunting fossils from the period in the Bighorn Basin, a hundred-mile-long arid plateau just east of ...

A fossil of a brand new species of ancient snake has been uncovered in India, and it may have been one of the largest snakes ...

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

"This fossil skeleton provides new evidence ... a tree-dwelling mammal in North America during the early Paleocene -- the geological epoch that followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event ...