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

The Paleocene Epoch was 66 to 56 million years ago, during which North America experienced a warmer climate. Most dinosaurs had just been wiped out by the Chicxulub impactor.

60-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Texas Was Home to Giant Prehistoric Possums Learn more about the discovery of a giant possum in Big Bend National Park and how it’s connected to early primate ...

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas — Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of a giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago.

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas — Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of a giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago.

He said that while Big Bend’s Paleocene mammals have been known for decades, this discovery sheds light on the larger ones often overlooked. Insights into primate evolution Beard also connected this ...

Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of a giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago. The fossils, found at Big Bend National Park in Texas, belong to a group of ancient ...

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.

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.

The Swaindelphys solastella represents one of the largest mammals of the Paleocene, helping illuminate the ecological conditions of early North American ecosystems and how these creatures interacted ...

Malinggai Uma Tradisional Mentawai, a grassroots, Indigenous-led organization, is working with communities to protect primates within the framework of Indigenous Mentawai customs.

A new Mississippi primate sanctuary aims to offer rescued primates a lifelong home and help veterans like owner April Stewart find healing.