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 ...

That might not sound like much, but it effected radical change for the sea, the land, and the animals that inhabit the planet today. The event is known as the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum ...

it was the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a 200,000-year period of rapid carbon release and global warming that turned Earth's oceans acidic and saw terrestrial animals suddenly get much ...

For more than 140 years, 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 ...

“But, from the data it’s not large brains that made animals survive after the asteroid.” In fact, in the early Paleocene ...

This dietary preference highlights the importance of vegetation in its habitat during the Paleocene epoch. The study was led by Yale anthropologist Eric Sargis and co-authored by Stephen Chester ...

In the Paleocene the summer water temperature in ... could cross land bridges and blend together. Hoofed running animals, the ancestors of horses and deer, showed up in the Bighorn.