A peer-reviewed study published in Nature Geoscience has found that during Earth’s most extreme ancient warming periods, between 66 and 47.8 million years ago, rainfall across mid-latitude regions ...

The climate record holds some of its best warnings in stone, soil, and leaves. In a new study, scientists from the University of Utah and the Colorado School of Mines looked back to one of Earth’s ...

The catastrophic impact of an asteroid 66 million years ago brought death and devastation on Earth—but also fascinating new ...

We here describe the first partial cranium of Hyaenodon leptorhynchus, the type species of the taxonomically diverse and widely distributed hypercarnivorous genus Hyaenodon (Hyaenodonta). The cranium ...

Aug. 10 (UPI) --An analysis of ancient shark teeth suggests the marine predators were relatively unaffected by the extinction event that wiped out 75 percent of the planet's species, including the ...

A new study has warned that unless we mitigate current levels of carbon dioxide emissions, Western Europe and New Zealand could revert to the hot tropical climate of the early Paleogene period -- ...

The Paleogene Santa Rosa local fauna: introduction / Kenneth E. Campbell, Jr. -- The Paleogene Santa Rosa local fauna of Amazonian Peru / Kenneth E. Campbell, Jr., Carl David Frailey, Lidia ...

Prolific Paleogene-age Wilcox reservoirs extend from onshore to deepwater offshore Gulf of Mexico (GOM). Discovery wells delineated the play across more than 35,000 sq km, and oil production from ...

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction event, marking the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods approximately 66 million years ago, stands as one of the most profound ...

The modern environment of southern China is dominated by a humid monsoon climate, and presents a striking contrast to the widespread deserts found at similar latitudes elsewhere. A new look at ...

Stretching from Alaminos Canyon off south Texas to the east across Walker Ridge and Keathley Canyon, the Paleogene was inaugurated with production from Shell’s Perdido field development. Petrobras’ ...