Fossil discoveries provide valuable insights into extinct species, revealing their behaviors, environments, and relationships to modern animals. One such mystery surrounded Mixodectes pungens, a small ...

Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

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 ...

Assemblages of fossil mammals from the same site can also be ... have a high proportion of terrestrial species with few relying on arboreal, semi-arboreal and scansorial modes of movement.

To encourage arboreal activity, we placed nest materials in and suspended food and water from the continuous climbing model. We observed the behavior of individual animals on the climbing models ...

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

Arboreal salamanders use skydiving techniques to avoid smashing ... scientists worry about the uncertain future of research and advocate action to rise above the situation. A series of rodent ...