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 to modern animals. One such mystery surrounded Mixodectes pungens, a small ...

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 ...

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, the ...

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

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.