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

The order Primates consists of not only our closest relatives on earth, the seven great apes, but also over 450 species of monkeys, lemurs, lorises, and galagos. Primates are fantastically diverse, ...

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

An artistic reconstruction of Swaindelphys, an extinct group of marsupial-like animals that once roamed North America.

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

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

The VA's spinal cord research project involving monkeys is wrapping up, marking the culmination of efforts by activists and lawmakers alike to end studies that harm dogs, cats, and primates. Also in ...

The scientists discovered a new species of ancient near-marsupials, or Swaindelphys, while analyzing fossils from Texas’ Big Bend National Park, according to a news release from KU. The 800,000 acre ...

Researchers said Swaindelphys are very similar to early primates. So, they hope to use this new discovery to inform studies about early primates in the same ecosystems in Texas.

Paleontologists from the University of Kansas have described for the first time a species of ancient near-marsupial discovered in Texas’ Big Bend National Park. Dubbed Swaindelphys ...

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