Colugos, also known as flying lemurs, colugos are arboreal mammals often seen gripping onto tall tropical tree trunks across Southeast Asia, with two species: Sunda and Philippine. Sometimes mistaken ...

Studying the physiology and ecology of whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals through methods ranging from molecular ecology to tracking the movements of individuals and populations using ...

The research team found that this early mammal, that lived in western North America about 62 million years ago, was tree-dwelling, weighed around three pounds, and fed primarily on leaves. Mixodectes ...

The research supports a close relationship between Mixodectes pungens, primates, and colugos, suggesting that mixodectids occupied a distinctive ecological niche among arboreal mammals of the time.

Two phylogenetic analyses performed to clarify the species' evolutionary relationships confirmed that mixodectids were euarchontans, a group of mammals that consists of treeshrews, primates, and ...

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 ...

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Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly gleaned from analyzing ...

Mixodectids were also euarchontans, a group of mammals that consists of treeshrews, primates, and colugos. To clarify just where Mixodectes fits on the evolutionary tree, the team conducted two ...