It also shows that these arboreal mammals—an extinct family known as mixodectids—and humans occupy relatively close branches on the evolutionary tree. "A 62-million-year-old skeleton of this ...

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, ...

All mammals have skeletons, like this cat. Many animals have skeletons to support and protect their body and to help it move. The human skeleton is made of bones which grow as we grow. Your bones ...

Note that osteology is not covered by this course. This workshop introduces students to the osteology of the mammalian skeleton. Working hands-on with skeletal materials, students will learn to ...

MIZUNAMI, Gifu Prefecture--A fossil believed to be the bones of the extinct marine mammal Paleoparadoxia was ... unearthed more than 80 percent of the skeleton, including the head.