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 ...

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.

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

Fossilized remains of ancient near-marsupials were reportedly found at Big Bend National Park in Texas. This news was ...

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

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Analyzing 60-million-year-old fossils from Texas’ Big Bend National Park, University of Kansas researchers found a new ‘big possum’ species.

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.