“A 62-million-year-old skeleton of this quality and completeness offers novel insights into mixodectids, including a much clearer picture of their evolutionary relationships,” study co-author and Yale ...

The evolutionary journey from primitive plesiadapiforms to early primates during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs represents a critical chapter in mammalian history. Fossil records from these periods ...

Mushrooms can be a divisive food for some people, but our distant primate relatives would have a different opinion on the matter. Non-human primates are known for their love of fruit, leaves, and ...

The fossils were found in flooded caves in the Dominican Republic. The cache, including seven skulls, five mandibles (jawbones), and dozens of other skeleton parts, makes the fossil site, Cueva Macho, ...

An artistic reconstruction of Swaindelphys, an extinct group of marsupial-like animals that once roamed North America. “Not only are they [Swaindelphys solastella] the largest metatherians from this ...

Everything's bigger in Texas – including a new species of 60-million-year-old possum. A team of paleontologists from the University of Kansas have discovered a new ancient marsupial in Texas's Big ...

(BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas) — Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of a giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago. The fossils, found at Big Bend National Park in Texas, ...

"Not only are they the largest metatherians from this time period, but they're also the youngest located at the most southern latitude," said Kristen Miller, a doctoral student at KU's Biodiversity ...

Adaptation and behavior in the primate fossil record / Callum F. Ross ... [et al.] -- Functional morphology and in vivo bone strain patterns in the craniofacial region of primates: beware of ...

Mixodectes pungens lived only a few million years after the dinosaurs went extinct. By Laura Baisas Published Mar 11, 2025 2:30 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, ...