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P aleontologists uncovered another rare fossil in Texas. This time, it's a 60-million-year-old fossil of a giant possum-like ...
Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of a giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago. The fossils, ...
The scientists discovered a new species of ancient near-marsupials, or Swaindelphys, while analyzing fossils from Texas’ Big ...
A newly described ancient mammal discovered in Texas is turning heads—not just for its size, but for what it reveals about ...
University of Kansas paleontologists discover giant hedgehog-sized marsupial relative from Paleocene Texas fossil collections ...
Paleontologists from the University of Kansas have described for the first time a species of ancient near-marsupial ...
At the dawn of the era that followed, the Paleocene, the forests were on fire, tsunamis rocked the coasts, and vast quantities of vaporised rock, ash and dust were rising miles into the atmosphere.
This timeline falls within the late Paleocene era, and more specifically, it's roughly 5 million to 10 million years after the end-Cretaceous extinction, ...
The Cambrian Period is when shells evolved, so it left interesting rocks. They were first studied by Adam Sedgwick and Roderick Murchison in 1835 in Wales, which the Romans called Cambria.
The Paleocene era fossils were collected from a beach in Otago on New Zealand's South Island. According to a release from the University of Otago, ...