What mechanisms allowed Earth to cool significantly after the age of the dinosaurs, transforming it from a tropical climate ...

At the end of the Paleocene and beginning of the Eocene epochs, between 59 to 51 million years ago, Earth experienced dramatic warming periods, both gradual periods stretching millions of years and ...

Foraminifera shells helped scientists piece together a picture of ocean movement during the Eocene period, where high atmospheric carbon levels caused the exchange of ocean waters to slow down. When ...

Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past Tim Vernimmen, Knowable Magazine Studying foraminiferan fossils can help us understand how the ...

A new scientific study reveals that life recovered much faster than expected after the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

A new study sheds light on how a species of foraminifera, single-celled organisms found in almost all marine habitats, thrives in a dark, oxygen-free environment. Most life on Earth relies on the ...

The first has to do with the period’s cataclysmic close. In lots of people’s minds, the mystery of what killed the dinosaurs and other species — paving the way for the rise of mammals — was solved a ...