New remarkably complete skeleton of Mixodectes reveals arboreality in a large Paleocene primatomorphan mammal following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction. Scientific Reports , 2025; 15 (1 ...

One of them, Mixodectes pungens lived in western North America during the early Paleocene–about about 66 to 56 million years ago. It was first discovered over 140 years ago by paleontologist ...

Mixodectes pungens lived in western North America during the Early Paleocene epoch, around 62 million years ago. First described in 1883 by the famed American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope, this ...

Some 2,400 years ago, they were controlled by strings that passed through their necks Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent Researchers have discovered a trove of ancient clay puppets at an ...