Namely, a group of primitive amphibians called the temnospondyls. They may have survived the Great Dying by feeding on some ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.

the patterns of diversity in the life we see after extinction do not relate to the patterns of diversity that existed before that extinction. After the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction that ...

Archaeologists uncovered a fossilized skull of an ancient sharp-toothed predator that likely hunted early elephants and primates.

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the ...

BP is set to ramp up U.S. natural gas production in its onshore shale operations following the recent rise in domestic gas ...