Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off non-avian ...

During the early Paleocene, about 66 to 56 million years ago, a species of small mammal known as Mixodectes pungens […] ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

The largest dinosaurs – known as titanosaurs – measured up to 38 meters in length, eight meters in height, and weighing just ...

New kinds of forests appeared, offering novel habitats for what would become tree-dwelling mammals -- primates, which first appeared about 50 million years ago, and eventually, some 45 million ...

2: Marine Mammals and Smaller Terrestrial Mammals ... In Comparative Biology and Evolutionary Relationships of Tree Shrews. ed. Luckett , W. P. (New York: Plenum Press ,1980) 133-169.

Tree kangaroos are found only in the rain forests of Australia, West Papua, and Papua New Guinea. Six of ten species are found in Papua New Guinea, in some of the last undisturbed rain forest ...

The sloth is the world's slowest mammal, so sedentary that algae grows on its furry coat. The plant gives it a greenish tint that is useful camouflage in the trees of its Central and South ...

Large mature trees provide abundant fruit/nut crops. Over mature and fallen trees harbor insects and small mammals. In contract, a large segment of the privately-owned land within the Adirondack Park ...

Whilst researching the potential stories for the Mammals Heat episode we came across a newly described behaviour about white sifaka lemurs in Madagascar hugging tree trunks to keep cool!

What features distinguish primates from other mammals? This question is of central importance to Biological Anthropology - the study of primate adaptation and evolution. In addition to having ...