In the 1800s, miners found beautifully preserved fossils of animals from the Eocene. In 1800s, miners began working in exposed deposits of mud near the town of Messel, Germany. They were extracting ...

Our current rate of warming will quickly lead us back to a climate that predates the evolution of modern humans, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. That ...

A study by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country into the paleodiet of extinct paleotheriidae (or pseudo horses) provides information about their feeding strategy and the environment they ...

Three closely related species of the irregular echinoid Oligopygus succeed one another in the late Eocene deposits of Florida. This apparent lineage, where each species is similar but larger than the ...

A Monash University-led study is prompting scientists to rethink how the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) system evolved and how it might behave in the future as our climate continues to change.

Patriomanis americana is the only pangolin (Mammalia, Pholidota), living or extinct, known from the western hemisphere. It derives from latest Eocene (Chadronian NALMA) deposits from central Wyoming ...