Skeleton shows Mixodectes pungens lived in trees and primarily ate leaves during the Paleocene epoch, highlighting its unique ecological niche after the dinosaurs. Discovering the leaf-eating ...

During the Paleocene Epoch, a chaotic chapter of Earth’s history that began after the cataclysmic asteroid strike 66 million years ago that doomed the dinosaurs, ...

The paleocene epoch, if you remember what “cene” means and put things together, is then a very weird term: It means the “old new time.” Sometimes etymology helps you make sense of the ...

Human-Sized Penguins Lived In New Zealand During The Paleocene Epoch. By Rhodilee Dolor Published 08/14/19 AT 12:12 PM EDT. Share on Facebook ...

Titanoboa. Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the biggest snake ever discovered, slithered through the humid tropical forests of ...

The researchers performed CT scans on fossils of 28 Paleocene mammal specimens and 96 from the subsequent Eocene Epoch, spanning 56-34 million years ago. They assessed brain size and the ...

The lizard’s hefty size helped confirm the elevated global temperature during a period known as the Paleocene greenhouse. “This would be a globally warmed time in Earth’s history, where ...

The diversity of mammals on Earth exploded straight after the dinosaur extinction event, according to new research. New analysis of the fossil record shows that placental mammals, the group that ...

M. lydae lived around 65.43 million years ago, during the Paleocene epoch (66 million to 56 million years ago), about 610,000 years — not long, in geological terms — after the mass extinction ...

The only way ancient ectotherms could get as big as they did would be for them to live in a hot climate, and the world was indeed much hotter during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.

What did the earth look like during the Paleocene Epoch? A Smithsonian researcher investigates. Scott L. Wing. July 12, 2011. Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter! Maura McCarthy.