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

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

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

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 ...

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.

More information: Kristen Miller et al, Biogeographic and biostratigraphic implications of a new species of Swaindelphys (Mammalia, Metatheria) from the Paleocene (Tiffanian) Black Peaks Formation ...

Paleontologists from the University of Kansas have uncovered an extraordinary fossil of an ancient marsupial-like creature, Swaindelphys solastella, in Big Bend National Park, Texas. This new ...

A complete Mixodectes pungens skeleton reveals it was a leaf-eating, tree-dwelling mammal closely related to primates and colugos, refining its evolutionary position after over a century of mystery.

Most Complete Fossil of Its Kind The partial skeleton, cataloged as NMMNH P-54501, was uncovered at the West Flank of Torreon Wash, within the Nacimiento Formation of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico.

For over a century, the early Paleocene mammal named Mixodectes pungens has remained an enigma. First identified in 1883, its remains consisted of small fragments of fossilized teeth and bones – not ...

This small arboreal mammal from an extinct group of primates called plesiadapiforms was discovered alongside it. While Mixodectes primarily ate leaves, Torrejonia mostly ate fruit.