Scientists have discovered a nearly complete skull of a Hyaenodonta, a hypercarnivore that that lived during the Oligocene Epoch some 20 million years ago. Scientifically known as Bastetodon syrtos, ...

This period is also called the “Age of Mammals”. During the Oligocene epoch about 33.9 to 23 million years ago, most mammals remained small, but one giant, Paraceratherium, stood out.

These ancient mammals were far larger than their modern relatives. Some species that lived during the Oligocene and Miocene epochs grew to the size of today's wolves and jaguars and were able to ...

Bastetodon is an example of an extinct group of predatory mammals known as the hyaenodonts ... to the cooling of the Oligocene (33.9 to 23 million years ago). An artist's reconstruction of ...

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 Fascinated by the ...

Wilson (1938-1946), and Harold Koerner (1946-1971), who helped expand the collection of Cenozoic mammals. Clark’s primary work focused on the Eocene Green River Formation in Utah and the ...

detailed that the fossil footprints are impressed on a muddy stratum from the Oligocene, and after initial prospecting, specialists confirmed that the footprints belonged to mammals from the Early ...