Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

Allow us to refresh your memory: it was the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a 200,000-year period of rapid carbon release and global warming that turned Earth's oceans acidic and saw terrestrial ...

The period lasted 200,000 years before the world was able to return to a "normal" temperature. Today the average global temperature is around 15-16 degrees Celsius, but in the Paleocene it was ...

One of them, Mixodectes pungens lived in western North America during the early Paleocene–about about 66 to 56 million years ago. It was first discovered over 140 years ago by paleontologist ...