Association of paleopalynological data from the Nanxiong Basin, south China, and late Paleocene niche expansion in endemic Asian fossil mammals.

Imagine a snake so massive it would have to squeeze through your office door to get at you. That was Titanoboa, the largest ...

An artistic reconstruction of Swaindelphys, an extinct group of marsupial-like animals that once roamed North America. “Not only are they [Swaindelphys solastella] the largest metatherians from this ...

The largest snake that ever lived is known as the Titanoboa; however, researchers in India may have unearthed fossils of a snake that rivaled its monstrous size: the recently discovered Vasuki indicus ...

In Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin one day last year a young laborer attached to a paleontological expedition from Princeton University dug out a chunk of fine-grained, greenish-grey sandstone. He could see ...

MARTINSVILLE – For the past nine years, South American snake fossils have interested Dr. Alex Hastings. Studying them has become a hobby for the assistant curator of paleontology at the Virginia ...

A 62-million-year-old fossil shows Mixodectes was a leaf-eating, tree-dwelling mammal closely related to primates. The discovery sheds light on early mammal evolution. Credit: Stephen Chester A ...

The discovery of the most complete fossil of Mixodectes pungens to date provides key insights into the post-dinosaur diversification of mammals and their evolutionary connection to primates and humans ...

Picture a woodchuck (you may know it as the groundhog). Now imagine it several hundred times bigger than its current size and heavily built like a bear. If the time is back in the Late Paleocene epoch ...

As scientists work on predicting the effects climate change will have on the future of our planet, some are looking way back into the past for answers. There are clues in the fossilized plants from a ...