Humans have remodeled the Earth so profoundly that in 2000, atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and biologist Eugene Stoermer proposed that the Holocene epoch had ended and the "Anthropocene," or human ...

The Embolotherium lived in Mongolia, and other regions in East Asia, with most fossils being found in the Gobi Desert. This animal lived during the Eocene Epoch, around 41 to 34 million yeast ago.

Barylambda emerged during the Paleocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period. They existed for only about three million years (55.8 – 58.7 million years ago). Fossils of this 1440-pound herbivore have been ...

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

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

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

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

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

The fossil, which includes parts like the skull ... Mixodectes occupied a unique ecological niche in the Paleocene, the epoch following the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. Its larger body size and ...

“This fossil skeleton provides new evidence concerning ... New remarkably complete skeleton of Mixodectes reveals arboreality in a large Paleocene primatomorphan mammal following the Cretaceous ...