Primates tend to give birth to one offspring. However, 60 million years ago, having twins was the norm among primates, which changed everything anthropologists understood to be true. Most ...

Sixty million years ago, a towering creature once loitered through the waters of New Zealand, a ‘monster’ penguin that stood ...

What ultimately formed Mt. Everest, about 60 million years ago, was the rapid movement of India northward toward the continent of EuroAsia; Click here for a present-day map of the Indian subcontinent.

In 2009, the discovery of Titanoboa cerrejonensis fossils in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine revealed a massive snake that lived 58 to 60 million years ago. This apex predator, reaching up to 47 ...

revealed the evolutionary relationships among the species and how their genomes have evolved over the past nearly 60 million years. The research team identified structural variations among the ...

Instead, their methyl silencing system employs a bacterial enzyme that made its way into the animals around 60 million years ago, researchers reported Monday (February 28) in Nature Communications.

The story begins between 50 and 60 million years ago, when a slab of rock sank into the Earth’s mantle, triggering a kind of “conveyor belt” that pushed hot material toward the surface. Thirty million ...

Researchers on Tuesday offered the most thorough examination to date of the history of penguins dating back to their origins more than 60 million years ago, including identifying a suite of genes ...