Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of a giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago. The fossils, ...

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

Kristen Miller, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at KU’s Biodiversity Institute, analyzed the Texan fossils to ...

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

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.

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, ...