Fossil evidence reveals that palm trees once thrived in the Canadian Arctic, challenging everything we know about Earth's ...

A nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a new species of Hyaenodonta, an apex carnivore that mysteriously ...

The team named the new genus Bastetodon partly in reference to the cat-headed ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, in honor of where the specimen was unearthed and of the feline-like snout of the ancient ...

By contrast, the earlier Eocene, when C02 reached 1000 ppm and ... with desert-specialist animals like snakes and rats soon to follow. Crichton explains that climate proxies help us to understand ...

Apparently, during the late Eocene Antarctica had an ice cap that ... it would block countless animals' access to breeding grounds and foraging waters. That is unlikely to happen, however, because ...

The Eocene-Oligocene boundary was a global cooling ... The hyaenodonts that survived then showed how adaptable and resilient the animals were, Borths said. A few million years later, however ...

syrtos’ football-sized skull in the Fayum Depression—an area with a century-long paleontological history that, crucially, straddles a 15-million-year window including both the Eocene’s ...