During the early Paleocene, about 66 to 56 million years ago, a species of small mammal known as Mixodectes pungens […] ...

The Titanoboa went extinct around 50 million years ago, but what might life be like now if this gargantuan beast still roamed ...

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 ...

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