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

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

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 ...

More information: Stephen G. B. Chester et al, New remarkably complete skeleton of Mixodectes reveals arboreality in a large Paleocene primatomorphan mammal following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass ...

Today the average global temperature is around 15-16 degrees Celsius, but in the Paleocene it was around ... is the period where all sorts of new mammals evolved. A kind of prehistoric “killer ...

In the Paleocene the summer water temperature in ... During the PETM itself a strange thing happened to some mammals: They got dwarfish. Horses in the Bighorn shrank to the size of Siamese cats ...

Sixty-five million years ago, as the last of the non-avian dinosaurs were going extinct, our earliest recognized ancestors appeared in the fossil record. When, where, and why did they evolve?

Mariah Green is a graduate student in the Museum and Field Studies Master’s Program at CU Boulder. Her thesis consists of using 2D and 3D imaging techniques to evaluate and measure bite force in ...