If something is sabre-toothed, we imagine that it’s a big cat. The idea of ancient humans fighting off sabre-toothed tigers ...

The discovery of this prehistoric giant stunned scientists and reignited our fascination with the lost rainforests of the Paleocene epoch ... energy for cold-blooded animals like snakes.

The most significant period of global warming, known as the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum ... which continued into the Pleistocene epoch of the Quaternary period. As for the changing ...

During the Paleocene Epoch, this part of the world illustrates an ecosystem ... It could have just gone extinct as many animals do and given rise to the smaller set of snake species that now call the ...

But as the Paleocene epoch gave way to the Eocene ... not just obscure sea organisms but also big, charismatic land animals. And scientists saw that they could use the carbon spike—the telltale ...

"They probably evolved during the Paleocene epoch, the 10-million-year interval ... experimentation as mammals became the dominant land animals in the aftermath of the asteroid impact that doomed ...

but in the Paleocene it was around seven degrees warmer than it is today. That might not sound like much, but it effected radical change for the sea, the land, and the animals that inhabit the ...