A new species of leaf beetle that lived nearly 49 million years ago (Eocene epoch) in what is now the United States has been named after Sir David Attenborough.
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New research shows that mean annual temperatures in southeast Australia gradually declined from 27 degrees Celsius during the Middle Eocene epoch to...
Paleontologists have identified two new species of palaeotheriid mammals from fossils found at the Eocene site of Zambrana in Alava, Spain.
Palaeotheriid...
In a paper published this month in the journal Fungal Biology, a duo of paleontologists from the United States and France described a new genus and species...
Hirmoneura messelense, a newly described species of nemestrinid fly that lived approximately 47.5 million years ago (Eocene period), pollinated flowers...
A new genus and species of caimanine alligatorid being named Chinatichampsus wilsonorum has been discovered by a team of paleontologists from Virginia...
A new genus and species of medium-sized python that lived during the early-middle Eocene period has been identified from several nearly complete skeletons...
Paleontologists have described new fossils of pelagornithid birds from the middle Eocene Submeseta Formation on Seymour Island, Antarctica.
An artist’s...
A new genus and species of owl that lived 55 million years ago (Eocene epoch) has been identified from a partial skeleton found in Wyoming, the United...
Paleontologists have discovered striking similarities between the fossilized bones of giant penguins that lived 62 million years ago in what is now New...
A new species of extinct quail-like bird has been identified from a fossil found in eastern Utah.
Reconstruction of Uintan paraortygid. Image credit: Thomas...
Lush green forests grew on Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg islands of the Canadian High Arctic 56 million years ago (Paleocene-Eocene boundary), according to...
Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new genus and species of extinct protocetid whale, based on the fossilized remains found in the Western...
Six new species of dragonflies that lived about 50 million years ago (early Eocene epoch) have been identified from fossils found in the Okanagan Highlands,...
A new species of prehistoric stingray with an exceptional anatomy, which greatly differs from living species, has been identified from fossils found in...
A slab of grayish limestone shale from the Eocene Green River Formation, the United States, caught a school of Erismatopterus levatus, an extinct species...
A new species of ancient whale ancestor has been identified from a fossilized skeleton found in Peru.
This illustration shows an artistic reconstruction...
The stomach contents preserved in an adult specimen of the archaic whale Basilosaurus isis from the site of the Wadi Al Hitan in Egypt suggest it was an...
Paleontologists at the University of Texas at Austin have identified three new species of omomyine primates that lived between 42 and 46 million years...
New research reveals that a well-preserved 52-million-year-old bird fossil specimen from the early Eocene of Wyoming, the United States, is from a previously...
