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

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 ...

Primates are masters of life in the trees, primarily due to their grasping hands and feet. Body size is a complicated variable across primate locomotor studies (Napier, 1968; Fleagle & Mittermeier ...

Compared to the lesser primates, such as monkeys and lemurs ... and other aspects. In this family tree, have a look at what sets us and the four other hominids apart from one another.*— ...

Adaptive radiations and stasis -- Phylogenetic trees across the order Primates Phylogenetic trees also allow for comparing and contrasting the tempo and mode of evolution among different groups of ...

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 been mostly gleaned from analyzing ...

Hang on, we're zipping back through 800,000 generations of your line—a long way down your family tree. Back then your primogenitor was more like a monkey than a chimp, no offense. Ever seen a ...

Researchers have hypothesized this happened because in denser forests, competition for light incentivized trees to grow taller ... of those early fruit-eating primates. Where human colonization ...