In the first of a new series, curator Dr Neil Adams shares the stories and science of the fossil mammal collection.

Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of a giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago. The fossils, found at Big Bend National Park in Texas, belong to a group of ancient ...

Beneath the surface of a Colombian coal mine, scientists made a discovery so extraordinary that it rewrote what we know about giant reptiles. In 2009, researchers unearthed fossil remains of an ...

Paleontologists uncovered another rare fossil in Texas. This time, it's a 60-million-year-old fossil of a giant possum-like mammal that is reported to be the largest marsupial found in the North ...

Reconstruction of a species of Swaindelphys discovered in Texas’ Big Bend National Park and described paleontologists from the University of Kansas. LAWRENCE — They say everything’s bigger in Texas.

Everything's bigger in Texas – including a new species of 60-million-year-old possum. A team of paleontologists from the University of Kansas have discovered a new ancient marsupial in Texas's Big ...

The evolutionary journey from primitive plesiadapiforms to early primates during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs represents a critical chapter in mammalian history. Fossil records from these periods ...

Texas is now home not only to cowboys but also to a unique fossil specimen from "Swaindelphys." This possum-like specimen was dated back to 60 million years ago, and per its features, it was possibly ...