experts said the Castle Rock fossils will compel them to reconsider the period of life immediately following the dinosaurs’ extinction, known as the lower Paleocene. “I never would’ve put ...

Mixodectes was quite large for a tree-dwelling mammal in North America during the early Paleocene — the geological epoch that followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off ...

A study published by Scientific Rreports sheds light on the anatomy, behavior, and evolutionary significance of Mixodectes pungens, an ancient mammal that lived shortly after the extinction of the ...

One of them, Mixodectes pungens lived in western North America during the early Paleocene–about about ... event that killed off non-avian dinosaurs about 66 million years ago.

Sixty-five million years ago, as the last of the non-avian dinosaurs were going extinct, our earliest recognized ancestors appeared in the fossil record. When, where, and why did they evolve?

(Wikimedia commons via Courthouse News) The team found that P. bizzocoi lived approximately 65 million years ago — about one million years after the dinosaurs died and the Paleocene period began.

Mixodectes was quite large for a tree-dwelling mammal in North America during the early Paleocene -- the geological ... event that killed off non-avian dinosaurs 66 million years ago, the ...