Paleocene
62-million-year-old skeleton sheds light on mysterious mammal
62-million-year-old skeleton sheds light on mysterious mammal A remarkably well-preserved skeleton of Mixodectes pungens offers insights into mammals’ evolutionary trajectory after non-avian dinosaur extinction. For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had […]
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