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

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

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

Brooklyn College/CUNY Graduate Center Associate Professor of Anthropology Stephen Chester and a team of researchers have ...

Its molar teeth had crests that are used to break down ... a group of mammals that consists of treeshrews, primates, and colugos. To clarify just where Mixodectes fits on the evolutionary tree ...

Colugos eat saps, leaves and shoots. They have comb-shaped teeth, which some scientists believe may act as food strainers or scrapers, or maybe used for grooming to remove parasites from their fur.

Its molar teeth had crests to break down abrasive material ... a group of mammals that consists of treeshrews, primates, and colugos. While one analysis supported that they were archaic primates ...