About 50 million years ago the climate of our planet changed faster than at any other time in our geological record. The period lasted ... but in the Paleocene it was around seven degrees warmer ...

For 40 years now Gingerich has been hunting fossils from the period in the ... labored to document the Paleocene-Eocene transition, most scientists saw it simply as a time when one set of fossils ...

The study focuses on what the isotope ratios reveal about what occurred during a time period in Earth’s geological history known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Boundary, or PETM. The PETM took ...

the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Alongside our tiny horse, the oldest-known ancestor of modern primates emerged during this time period. About the size of a tarsier, Teilhardina could fit ...

One of them, Mixodectes pungens lived in western North America during the early Paleocene–about about 66 to 56 million years ago. It was first discovered over 140 years ago by paleontologist ...