The evolutionary journey from primitive plesiadapiforms to early primates during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs represents a critical chapter in mammalian history.

Researchers Discovered 60-Million-Year-Old Fossil of Giant Possum in Texas's Big Bend National Park Texas is now home not ...

References [1] Virtual Endocast of Late Paleocene Niptomomys and Early Primate Brain Evolution. Journal of Human Evolution (2023). [2] The Oldest Known Primate Skeleton and Early Haplorhine Evolution.

Learn more about the discovery of a giant possum in Big Bend National Park and how it’s connected to early primate evolution.

They say everything's bigger in Texas. And that appears to be true, at least in the case of a group of ancient ...

Kristen Miller, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at KU’s Biodiversity Institute, analyzed the Texan fossils to ...

University of Kansas paleontologists discover giant hedgehog-sized marsupial relative from Paleocene Texas fossil collections ...

They’re not, technically speaking, primates, but they're very close to the ancestry of living and fossil primates. These marsupials are probably ecological analogues of early primates.

The fossils, found at Big Bend National Park in Texas, belong to a group of ancient near-marsupials from the Paleocene period ...

A newly described ancient mammal discovered in Texas is turning heads—not just for its size, but for what it reveals about ...