Tag Archive for 'Eocene-Oligocene transition'

A British Pleistocene landscape during an interglacial with cave lion (Panthera spelaea), straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus), narrow-nosed rhinoceros (Stephanorhinus hemitoechus), steppe bison (Bison priscus), aurochs (Bison primigenius) and hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius). Image credit: Roman Uchytel, via the Netherlands Institute of Ecology.

Previously Unknown Mass Extinction Occurred 30 Million Years Ago in Africa and Arabia

Oct 8, 2021 by News Staff

Nearly 63% of Afro-Arabian mammalian species went extinct approximately 30 million years ago (Oligocene epoch), after Earth’s climate shifted from swampy...

The EOT transition functioned as a critical filtering episode during the evolutionary history of primates. Image credit: Xijun Ni

Ten Fossil Species from China Reveal Divergence between Afro-Arabian and Asian Primate Evolution

May 6, 2016 by News Staff

In a study published online in the journal Science, paleontologists from China and the United States report the discovery of a diverse primate fauna from...