The fossils were recovered from the Green River ... Waterbird foraging traces from the early Eocene Green River Formation, Utah, Journal of Paleontology (2025). DOI: 10.1017/jpa.

The team named the new genus Bastetodon partly in reference to the cat-headed ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, in honor of where the specimen was unearthed and of the feline-like snout of the ancient ...

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 ...

Fossil Atmospheres offered several ways to be involved in ... There is one period of time that we are particularly interested in, this is the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM for short. It ...

During the first two decades that Gingerich labored to document the Paleocene-Eocene transition, most scientists saw it simply as a time when one set of fossils gave way to another. That ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

and fossil lorises and galagids. During the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene, parts of this area were warm, wet, seasonal forests influenced by monsoons. Several strepsirrhine groups disappear ...

This giant snake grew up to 15 meters (49 feet) long, making it one of the longest ever found. Its fossils were discovered in 2004, but scientists identified it as a new species only in 2024. It was ...