For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America ... But a new study of the most complete skeleton of the species known to exist has answered ...

Police and forensics swooped to the small cul-de-sac after the skeleton was found on Saturday afternoon. It is not known how old the remains were and formal identification had yet to take place ...

But a new study of the most complete skeleton of the species known to exist ... For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in ...

the Mixodectes skeleton is significantly larger than a partial skeleton of Torrejonia wilsoni, a small arboreal mammal from an extinct group of primates called plesiadapiforms, that was discovered ...