The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

Fossil discoveries provide valuable insights into extinct species, revealing their behaviors, environments, and relationships to modern animals. One such mystery surrounded Mixodectes pungens, a small ...

Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

Researchers have dated volcanic layers at six fossil-bearing sites in Turkey, including one known as Taşhan (shown). The ...

Mixodectids were also euarchontans, a group of mammals that consists of treeshrews, primates, and colugos. To clarify just where Mixodectes fits on the evolutionary tree, the team conducted two ...

It also shows that these arboreal mammals—an extinct family known as mixodectids—and humans occupy relatively close branches on the evolutionary tree. "A 62-million-year-old skeleton of this ...

What do phylogenetic trees illustrate? These diagrams don't just organize knowledge of biodiversity - they also show us that living species are the summation of their evolutionary history.

The study, published in Science, reconstructs the family tree of mollusks ... understanding the evolution and biology of one of the most evolutionarily successful groups of animals on Earth ...