Recently, paleontologists Dr. John-Paul Zonneveld, Dr. Sarah Naone, and Dr. Brooks Britt described the discovery and ...

Over 30 million years ago, monkeys crossed the Atlantic on rafts. Researchers believe they made the 1,000-mile journey on ...

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

Harris introduced the first vertebrate paleontology laboratory classes, allowing students to study real fossil materials, and she made significant contributions to the collection by collecting from ...

The specimen, likely to be of the ancestors of modern whales, would have helped geologists assess the paleontological ...

A nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a new species of Hyaenodonta, an apex carnivore that mysteriously went extinct about 25 million years ago.

Therefore the aquatic cetaceans (toothed and baleen whales) that began to appear 50 million years ago in the Eocene must have evolved from terrestrial ... Two separate discoveries of ancient whale ...

Anacardites franklinensis, a species defined by Wolfe from the Eocene Puget Group ... D, Insect body fossils have not been found in the Burnaby Mountain sediments, but some examples of insect ...

The collection also contains older fossil bird specimens from the Eocene, Miocene and Pleistocene. In addition to recently extinct species, like moas and elephant birds the Museum also cares for older ...

"The discovery of palm fossils this far north provides clear ... that this evolutionary trait had emerged by the early Eocene. The presence of multiple warm-adapted aquatic species further ...