May 9, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Cicadidae is one of the most species-rich insect families today. However, compared to the number of living species, fossil records of Cicadidae are extremely...

Mar 17, 2021 by News Staff

Hirmoneura messelense, a newly described species of nemestrinid fly that lived approximately 47.5 million years ago (Eocene period), pollinated flowers...

Dec 18, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

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...

May 28, 2014 by Enrico de Lazaro

Fossilized pollen grains found in the stomach of a 47-miilion-year-old Pumiliornis tessellatus, a tiny bird that lived in what is now Germany during Eocene,...