Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

A 62-million-year-old mammal fossil reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, plant-based diet, and evolutionary ties to primates ...

"These extinct early mammals had distinct lifestyles, ranging from ground-dwelling and burrowing to gliding through the ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.

Someone cut off the head of a sea lion in Northern California and rode off with it in a bag. Authorities are now offering $20 ...

NOAA officials are looking for a suspect seen using a black 8-inch knife to remove the deceased sea lion's head.

An ancient animal bone discovered in a quarry about 20 years ago has been donated to a museum. The bone from a palaeoloxodon ...

There was, briefly, a risk that FT Alphaville’s recent Art of the Chart show would occur without any small caged mammal representation. But the arc of the mammalian universe bends towards content, and ...

Scientists are sounding alarms about a genetic mutation that was recently identified in four dairy cow herds, nearly one year ...

In the 1980s, David Attenborough travels to Florida to meet the opossum in this groundbreaking wildlife documentary and ...