Chlamydoselachus teeth recorded from the Takatika Grit, Chatham Islands, Southwest Pacific, are Danian in age and represent a new species of Chlamydoselachidae and the oldest Cenozoic record in the ...

“A 62-million-year-old skeleton of this quality and completeness offers novel insights into mixodectids, including a much clearer picture of their evolutionary relationships,” study co-author and Yale ...

Szalinia gracilis, gen. et sp. nov. is a new "didelphoid" marsupial from the early Paleocene beds of the Santa Lucía Formation at Tiupampa (Bolivia). It is characterized by a short rostrum and a ...

New Haven, Conn. — For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them ...

The evolutionary journey from primitive plesiadapiforms to early primates during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs represents a critical chapter in mammalian history. Fossil records from these periods ...

Together with colleagues from New Zealand, Senckenberg scientist Dr. Gerald Mayr described a recently discovered fossil of a giant penguin with a body length of around 150 centimeters. The new find ...

After the asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period that triggered the dinosaurs' extinction and ushered in the Paleocene, leaf-mining insects in the western United States completely ...

Studying ancient mammals helps scientists understand how life evolved and adapted over millions of years. Fossil discoveries provide valuable insights into extinct species, revealing their behaviors, ...

Meet Beornus honeyi — but you can call him Beorn. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Early on their quest to reach the Lonely ...

Aug. 18 (UPI) --Mammals were mostly an afterthought during the age of the dinosaurs. For 150 million years, reptiles dominated the planet. But the discovery of three new prehistoric mammal species, ...