A study published by Scientific Rreports sheds light on the anatomy, behavior, and evolutionary significance of Mixodectes ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and effects of the highest global temperatures in the last 65m years, when Arctic sea surfaces reached up to 23 C for c100,000 years. Show more Melvyn Bragg ...

A study of boron/calcium ratios in the shells of marine plankton suggests that the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a rapid global warming and ocean acidification event 55.6 million years ago that ...

The Paleocene is a geological epoch within the Paleogene Period, spanning approximately 66 to 56 million years ago, immediately following the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary. It is defined ...

Mammals have the largest brain to body size ratio among vertebrates, but how did this unprecedented encephalization emerge during their evolution? A new study by Ornella Bertrand and colleagues ...