Jon G. Fuller/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images(BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas) -- Paleontologists have found ...

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

Paleontologists at the University of Kansas have discovered a new "big possum" species that lived in the warm, tropical and ...

They say everything's bigger in Texas. And that appears to be true, at least in the case of a group of ancient ...

First, it is much larger than any other similar species known from the Paleocene period, according to the release. This is the period that occurred just after the extinction of dinosaurs.

A recently discovered fossil of a giant penguin with a body length of around 150 centimeters has been described in a new article. The new find dates back to the Paleocene era and, with an age of ...

The most significant period of global warming, known as the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, took place of 55.8 million years ago. It was followed by a long cool, dry period.

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 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, ...