Fossil discoveries provide valuable insights into extinct species, revealing their behaviors, environments, and relationships ...

Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.

During the first two decades that Gingerich labored to document the Paleocene-Eocene transition, most scientists saw it simply as a time when one set of fossils gave way to another. That ...

Brooklyn College/CUNY Graduate Center Associate Professor of Anthropology Stephen Chester and a team of researchers have ...

Fossil Atmospheres offered several ways to be involved in ... There is one period of time that we are particularly interested in, this is the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM for short. It ...

but during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, weighed just 3.9 kilograms (8.5 pounds). Flash forward 56 million years and we have a remarkable fossil of its jaw complete with teeth, typically ...

including sites in the Paleocene/Eocene Rocks of Colorado, Eocene rocks of Wyoming, and Miocene rocks of Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming. Robinson also expanded the collection internationally, adding ...

The event is known as the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM ... resembling some form of enormous sauna. As an aside, a fossil of a kind of prehistoric “killer badger” was found with ...

"This fossil skeleton provides new evidence concerning ... for a tree-dwelling mammal in North America during the early Paleocene -- the geological epoch that followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene ...

There is one period of time that we are particularly interested in, this is the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum ... We are collecting and imaging lots of modern and fossil Ginkgo leaves, including ...