The Eocene epoch witnessed a dramatic reorganisation of mammalian communities in response to rapid climatic shifts, notably the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum and subsequent cooling. Across ...
Scientists have shown that the incidence of midge and fly larvae in amber is far higher than previously thought. The new finds shed light on insect evolution and the ecology in the Baltic amber forest ...
From an evolutionary perspective, is bigger always better? The journey the thunder beasts took to reach such mega proportions from such humble beginnings forces us to ask an important question, one ...
Very large things often have small beginnings. That certainly was true for brontotheres, the enormous, rhino-like herbivorous mammals that lumbered across North America and Asia during the Eocene ...
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It is a big news day for palaeontologists, as well as for kids who memorize science facts. The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is no longer indisputably the heaviest animal to have ever lived. A ...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A new international analysis of marine fossils shows that warming of the polar oceans during the Eocene, a greenhouse period that provides a glimpse of Earth's potential future ...
The Eocene is a formally defined epoch of the Paleogene Period within the Cenozoic Era, spanning approximately 56 to 34 million years ago, characterized by globally warm climates and high atmospheric ...