Tapirs are often called “living fossils” because they have changed very little since the Eocene Epoch, which was between 56 ...

Tapirs are related to horses and rhinos. They have stocky, barrel-shaped bodies, tough skin, and bristly hair. Their most distinctive feature is their prehensile trunk, which works much like an ...

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Around 45 million years ago, during the Eocene Epoch, the Geiseltal region of present-day Germany was a vast, humid swamp that teemed with life. Ancient horses, early tapirs, giant tortoises, large ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 feet-tall (1.40 metres) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt. An international team of researchers led by the ...

This is the Eocene Period, roughly from 56 million to 34 million years ago. Some of the best rock exposures from this critical moment in mammalian history are stretched across Wyoming. Wyoming’s ...

Horses relate through body language, and the tail is one of their most expressive “talking” parts. Anatomy of an equine tail. Flexible and strong, the horse’s tail is part of his spinal column. It is ...

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In biology, Cope's rule explains that animals will increase in body size as time and generations pass. One example of this is the ancestors of horses. During the Eocene Epoch, the oldest known horse, ...

The earliest fossilized ancestor of the modern horse, Eohippus, was found in the northern Big Horn Basin, at the foot of the Pryor Mountains. Eohippus was a dog-sized critter, hardly the magnificent ...

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