New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off non-avian ...

DNO, a Norwegian oil and gas operator, has reported an oil and gas discovery in the northern North Sea licence PL1182 S, where it holds a 40% operated interest. Partners in the licence include Aker BP ...

But as the Paleocene epoch gave way to the Eocene, it was about to get much warmer still—rapidly, radically warmer. The cause was a massive and geologically sudden release of carbon. Just how ...

Cast your mind back 56 million years. Can’t? Allow us to refresh your memory: it was the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a 200,000-year period of rapid carbon release and global warming that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today the average global temperature is around 15-16 degrees Celsius, but in the Paleocene it was around seven degrees warmer than it is today. That might not sound like much, but it effected ...