Humans have remodeled the Earth so profoundly that in 2000, atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and biologist Eugene Stoermer ...

Fossilized teeth found in Peru suggest monkeys rafted across the Atlantic from Africa to South America 30 million years ago, ...

In ancient China, spring rains were called "as precious as oil" for their vital role in nature's spring revival. Today, a ...

This animal lived during the late Eocene Epoch in East Asia. Its name is in reference to the ... The Embolotherium was a very large ancient mammal, known only by incomplete fossil remains. While there ...

New research uncovers the arboreal lifestyle and diet of Mixodectes pungens.

E. D. Cope, struck by the remarkable fact that the molar teeth, both upper and lower, of all the mammals from the Puerco or lowest Eocene horizon of North America carry three cusps arranged in ...

The planet’s earliest mammals are an important part of our evolutionary ... known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene ...

The elephant won the first March Mammal Madness in 2013. / John Partipilo / The Tennessean / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Every March, college basketball fans print out brackets and try ...

Mixodectes was quite large for a tree-dwelling mammal in North America during the early Paleocene — the geological epoch that followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off ...

Everyone knows about the dinosaur extinction but not many know about the rise of mammals that followed, such as the gomphotheres. This group of proboscideans began roaming on Earth around the end of ...

This site offers a fascinating glimpse into a world dominated by colossal creatures that roamed the Earth during the Pleistocene epoch. Join us as we explore the significance of these ancient giants ...