and this pollution is rapidly pushing the climate back to its state in the Eocene Epoch, more than 33 million years ago, when there was no ice on either pole. "We have exquisite information about ...

A study published in Geophysical Research Letters shows that during the early Eocene—the hottest period in the last 65 million years—the rain belt's seasonal shifts weakened dramatically.

The researchers found the sandstone roughly 95 million years old from the Late Cretaceous period and a mix of granite and volcanic pebbles from up to 130 million years old during the Early Cretaceous ...

Analyses of pollen and spores and the remains of tiny creatures have given a climatic picture of the early Eocene period, about 53 million years ago. The study in Nature suggests Antarctic winter ...

The period lasted 200,000 years before the world ... The event is known as the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) but the cause of the warming is still debated. Huge amounts of carbon ...

Learn about the time period that took place 65 to 23 million years ago. 3 min read At the dawn of the Paleogene—the beginning of the Cenozoic era—dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and giant marine ...

Gigantophis garstini was a massive prehistoric snake from the Eocene epoch, estimated to be around 36 feet (11 meters) long.It lived in what is now Northern Africa and was one of the largest ...

The crocodile, Plalaysuchus Petroleum, comes from the Eocene period and was found perfectly preserved. The 92cm long skeleton, which was unearthed in China, is expected to fetch up to £15,000 at ...

M ove over dinosaurs!After the end of the Cretaceous period, when the dinosaurs went extinct, prehistoric mammals began to ...