Discovered in Australia, the fossils represent a new species that lived during the Miocene epoch and highlight how iron-rich ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly gleaned from analyzing ...

But as the Paleocene epoch gave way to the Eocene ... For 40 years now Gingerich has been hunting fossils from the period in the Bighorn Basin, a hundred-mile-long arid plateau just east of ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Journal of Paleontology Vol. 57, No. 6, Nov., 1983 New Late Paleocene Molluscs from the Sim... New Late Paleocene Molluscs from the Simi Hills, Ventura ...

Today the average global temperature is around 15-16 degrees Celsius, but in the Paleocene it was around ... As an aside, a fossil of a kind of prehistoric “killer badger” was found with ...

A fossil of a brand new species of ancient snake has been uncovered in India, and it may have been one of the largest snakes ...

This dietary preference highlights the importance of vegetation in its habitat during the Paleocene epoch. The study was ... between different species. "This fossil skeleton provides new evidence ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological ... 2025 “This fossil skeleton provides new evidence concerning how placental ...

Skeleton shows Mixodectes pungens lived in trees and primarily ate leaves during the Paleocene epoch, highlighting its unique ecological niche after the dinosaurs. Information ...