Recently, paleontologists Dr. John-Paul Zonneveld, Dr. Sarah Naone, and Dr. Brooks Britt described the discovery and ...

A new study by Connecticut College provides strong evidence that palm trees once thrived in subarctic Canada, reshaping scientific understanding of past Arctic climates. Professor Peter Siver's ...

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, ...

Professor Peter Siver's research, published in the journal Annals of Botany, confirms that during the late early ...

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 ...

They boasted sharp hyena-like teeth and stalked African ecosystems hunting for primates, early hippos ... capture the transition from the warm Eocene epoch to the cooler Oligocene epoch, and ...

Over almost 18 million years, the mostly steamy climate gradually cooled and carbon dioxide levels declined from an early high ... By contrast, the earlier Eocene, when C02 reached 1000 ppm ...

Findings, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, detail how this ferocious creature would have likely preyed on primates, early hippos ... from the Eocene’s global ...