They show that Messel had one of the world’s most diverse floras of the Paleogene – the era between about 65 and 23 million years ago. Skip to main content Your source for the latest research news ...

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 ...

The animal they belonged to lived within a million years of the extinction of the dinosaurs. Jacqueline Ronson Scott has a couple ideas on how mammals did relatively well at a time of mass extinction.

Severe extinction and rapid recovery of mammals across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, and the effects of rarity on patterns of extinction and recovery. Journal of Evolutionary Biology , 2016 ...

A recent study has uncovered an extraordinary survival story—night lizards, small reptiles that still inhabit parts of North and Central America, managed to endure the asteroid impact that wiped out ...

The humble iguana may have have pulled off an epic migration millions of years ago, traveling from the coast of today’s Mexico to Fiji on rafts made of vegetation.

About 66 million years ago, a 9-kilometer-wide asteroid slammed into Earth, creating the Chicxulub crater and triggering the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event. Skies filled with soot and gas ...

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A team of paleontologists explore the fossil-rich Corral Bluffs near Colorado Springs, Colorado. Photo: Rick Wicker (DMNS) A new research grant will fund an investigation of the ecological and ...