New study with strong University of Arizona ties finds carbon dioxide has played a dominant role in controlling Earth’s ...

But one thing is certain: You wouldn't want to encounter any Palaeophis species or its gigantic terrestrial counterpart, Titanoboa cerrejonensis from Colombia's Paleocene era, in the wild. The mighty ...

Titanoboa cerrejonensis, now considered the largest known snake in history, lived approximately 58 to 60 million years ago during the Paleocene epoch, a period just after the extinction of the ...

HEBRON -- As a three-man team pushed a drill bit dozens of feet underground, keys to North Dakota's past, present and -- possibly -- its future rose to the surface. Every 5 feet or so, one of the ...

Understanding those interactions is part of the garden experience. In the section on the Carboniferous Period, Australian tree ferns and horsetails act as miniature stand-ins for their massive ...

is believed to have been essential to kick-starting evolution beyond microorganisms by toughening up early life forms through shell formation and other adaptations to the era’s planet-wide deep freeze ...

“If you’re studying the past couple of million years, you won’t find anything that looks like what we expect in 2100 or 2500,” said Wing, the museum’s curator of paleobotany whose research focuses on ...

In particular, over 150 metres of London Clay were laid down. And, as the Palaeocene period progressed, subsidence in this region led to the formation of the London Basin, with its approximately ...

Our inferred phylogeny confirmed most genus-level associations, and molecular dating analysis placed the origin of Holoadeninae in the Eocene, with subsequent splits also occurring during this period ...

of food. The type specimen of Sudamerica ameghinoi was discovered in Punta Peligro, Argentina in deposits dating to the Lower Paleocene period. In 1999 ...