Two fossils of singing cicadas, one of which was remarkably well preserved, reveals that the insects dispersed in Europe ...

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 ...

The Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD) has confirmed that tremors were felt in parts of Nairobi on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The event is known as the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM ... monkeys become social – primates evolve – humans emerge in Africa later on. It’s thought that this happened because ...