62-Million-Year-Old Fossil Found in New Mexico Rewrites Mammal History

Reimagined Scientific Illustration of Mixodectes PungensA complete Mixodectes pungens skeleton reveals it was a leaf-eating, tree-dwelling mammal closely related to primates and colugos, refining its evolutionary position after over a century of mystery. For over 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a small mammal that lived in western North America during the early Paleocene, remained largely a mystery. Scientists had only fragmentary […] Read More

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