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 known about them had been mostly gleaned from analyzing fossilized teeth and jawbone fragments. But a new study of the most complete s
Jordan Crowell of the City University of New York and Mary Silcox of the University of Toronto Scarborough
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Florida Museum researchers‘ discovery of a giant fossilized snake in Colombia reveals a picture of warmer tropics ruled by beasts larger than anyone imagined. The largest snake the world has ever known – as long as a school bus and as heavy as a small car – ruled tropical ecosystems only 6 mi
Florida Museum photo by Jeff Gage Jason Head, a paleontologist at the University of Toronto in Mississauga
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For more than 100 years, scientists have debated the relationships of a bizarre family of extinct mammals called apatemyids. Distinguished by can opener-shaped upper front teeth and two unusually long fingers, the odd features of these critters have led researchers to compare them with animals from
an industrial CT scanner,” said Silcox, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto
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Undergraduate students are underlined 2023 VL Mathis and R Mathieu. Investigating the species status of Sherman’s short-tailed shrew (Blarina shermani): preliminary insights. Joint meeting of the 13th International Mammalogical Congress and the 102nd annual meeting of the American Society of Mamma
Phylogeography of Mexican free-tailed bats on the Bahamian archipelago. 41st Annual Symposium on Bat Research, Toronto
