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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Cranium scans of Arctocyon primaevus, a mammal of the Paleocene Epoch, left, and Hyrachuys modestus, a mammal of the subsequent Eocene period, when specialized brains started to become more important.

(CN) — During an extensive search for new fossil species, Jun Ebersole found one in an old box. “A few years ago, I was looking through the historical fossil collections at the Geological Survey in ...

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, ...

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, ...

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.

These eggs are thought to have been from the Upper Cretaceous–Lower Paleocene era. The species of dinosaur that laid them were likely wiped out in the end-Cretaceous extinction event triggered ...