An international team of scientists has discovered that methane hydrates beneath the northwest Greenland continental shelf ...

A new study suggests that duplicated genomes gave some flowering plants the genetic flexibility needed to endure Earth’s ...

A giant asteroid impact crater has been found under Greenland's Hiawatha Glacier. Advanced radar revealed the enormous structure. Scientists analysed meltwater sediments, finding shocked quartz and ...

Oxygenation in the tropical North Pacific Ocean increased during a warm climatic interval that occurred roughly 56 million years ago, despite high global temperatures, according to a new study. Its ...

Reconstructed surface air temperature (left) and rainfall amount (right) during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum warming event, 56 million years ago. The maps were created by blending geological ...

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 ...