Imagine an ancient world where shadows stretched beneath colossal trees, and the air shimmered with heat and humidity. In this realm, a creature longer than a school bus slithered silently through ...

But as the Paleocene epoch gave way to the Eocene ... not just obscure sea organisms but also big, charismatic land animals. And scientists saw that they could use the carbon spike—the telltale ...

A complete Mixodectes pungens skeleton reveals it was a leaf-eating, tree-dwelling mammal closely related to primates and ...

This is the first specimen of Mixodectes to provide such a detailed anatomical view, enabling a re-evaluation of the animal’s ecological ... University. The Paleocene epoch saw mammals rapidly ...