The fossils were found at Big Bend National Park in Texas. Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of a giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago. The fossils, found at Big Bend ...

Around 66 million years ago, tragedy struck the dinosaurs when a massive space rock barrelled into what’s now the Yucatán Peninsula in southeast Mexico. This killed off around 75 percent of all the ...

Evidence for ammonite survival into the Paleogene era is solid, a new study confirms, indicating that these ancient mollusks were well positioned to inherit oceans now cleared of competitors. Yet for ...

In the aftermath of the giant asteroid that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula about 66 million years ago, approximately 75% of all species on Earth were wiped out, including the dinosaurs. Among ...

While dinosaurs were wiped out when a massive asteroid struck Earth, ammonites survived the massive explosion, only to disappear shortly after, as per a recent study published in Scientific Reports.

The fossil, estimated to be about 70 million years old, was found during a drilling project. By Sopan Deb Have you ever searched for a pair of glasses, only to realize that they were on your head the ...

To understand how global warming could influence future climate, scientists look to the Paleogene Period that began 66 million years ago, covering a time when Earth's atmospheric carbon dioxide levels ...

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