More than two-thirds of mammals in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula went extinct during the Eocene-Oligocene transition some 30 million years ago, a study finds. Chloe Tenn is a graduate of North ...

Dozens of fossil primate species are known from North Africa, including adapiforms, anthropoids, and fossil lorises and galagids. During the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene, parts of this area ...

Rapid global warming marked the boundary between the Palaeocene and Eocene periods 55.6 million ... in a mechanism similar to that seen today in African rift lakes. Long-term global warming ...

Eocene rocks of Wyoming, and Miocene rocks of Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming. Robinson also expanded the collection internationally, adding Miocene faunas from Tunisia and late Pliocene fossils from ...

This is a reconstruction of the early Eocene (52 million-year-old) fauna that inhabited the rainforest around a northern British Colombia lake. The tapiroid Heptodon drinks in the shallows ...

Large regions in northern, southern, and central-western Africa, as well as northern Madagascar, are experiencing severe drought conditions due to two or more years of lower-than-average rainfall ...