Learn more about the discovery of a giant possum in Big Bend National Park and how it's connected to early primate evolution.

The fossils, found at Big Bend National Park in Texas, belong to a group of ancient near-marsupials from the Paleocene period ...

Fossilized remains of ancient near-marsupials were reportedly found at Big Bend National Park in Texas. This news was ...

University of Kansas paleontologists discover giant hedgehog-sized marsupial relative from Paleocene Texas fossil collections ...

Discover the largest ever prehistoric possum fossil found in Texas.

Paleontologists from the University of Kansas have described for the first time a species of ancient near-marsupial ...

The scientists discovered a new species of ancient near-marsupials, or Swaindelphys, while analyzing fossils from Texas’ Big ...

A mysterious phenomenon beneath Oman is changing the way scientists view Earth's geology. A hidden structure, unlike anything ...

Fossils unearthed in New Zealand reveal Kumimanu fordycei, a giant penguin species from the Paleocene epoch, weighing around 350 pounds. This discover ...

Source: Geophysical Research Letters Fifty-six million years ago, during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), global temperatures rose by more than 5°C over 100,000 or more years. Between ...

The initial Paleocene was an era of accelerated evolutionary transformation, as mammals started to diversify and utilize the ecological niches left vacant by the demise of the large reptiles. During ...