More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.

and position in the Tree of Life. For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was ...

Lyson, with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, told DailyMail.com. 'The base of the mammal tree of life has long had an evolutionary gap,' said Lyson. 'The recent discovery of Militocodon ...

"We also knew that tree-dwelling mammals struggled after the asteroid ... a few million years before the asteroid impact reshaped life on Earth. More information: Down to earth: therian mammals ...

and position in the Tree of Life. The study, co-authored by Yale anthropologist Eric Sargis, demonstrates that the mature adult Mixodectes weighed about 3 pounds, dwelled in trees, and largely dined ...

the findings offer new insights into how prehistoric mammals responded to changing environments – a few million years before the asteroid impact reshaped life on Earth.

These organisms, named Prototaxites, lived around 420 million to 375 million years ago during the Devonian period and ...

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 ...