“You would have grasslands, which didn’t really exist that much in the Eocene.” Significantly, the Miocene was a nearly 18 million year epoch full of change, albeit far slower change than our ...

Maps are ubiquitous—on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...

These historic rocks capture the transition from the warm Eocene epoch to the cooler Oligocene epoch, and were also holding onto an exciting discovery. “Just as we were about to conclude our ...

Scientists have discovered a nearly complete skull of a Hyaenodonta, a hypercarnivore that that lived during the Oligocene Epoch some 20 ... including both the Eocene’s global warming to the ...

The skull dates back to the early Oligocene Epoch around 30 million years ago ... "Faunal turnoverThe Eocene-Oligocene boundary was a global cooling event that occurred about 34 million years ...

The first ancestors and close relatives of the modern mammal species are said to have appeared in the Eocene period. The ...