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

Skeleton shows Mixodectes pungens lived in trees and primarily ate leaves during the Paleocene epoch, highlighting its unique ...

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

But as the Paleocene epoch gave way to the Eocene, it was about to get much warmer still—rapidly, radically warmer. The cause was a massive and geologically sudden release of carbon. Just how ...

Today the average global temperature is around 15-16 degrees Celsius, but in the Paleocene it was around seven degrees warmer than it is today. That might not sound like much, but it effected ...

Mixodectes was quite large for a tree-dwelling mammal in North America during the early Paleocene -- the geological epoch that followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off ...