The ancestors of our furry cats and dogs once looked similar to today's modern mongoose, a mammal with a long body and small, ...

Profound environmental and faunal changes are associated with climatic deterioration during the Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT) roughly 34 million years ago. Primates are among the most ...

Examination of middle Eocene through Oligocene samples from the Gay's Cove, Bath Cliffs, and Codrington College sections (Oceanic Formation, Barbados) demonstrates the presence of two major benthic ...

Thirty-nine macrofossil taxa are recorded from the late Oligocene (Duntroonian to mid Waitakian) Torehina Formation at Waitete Bay, northern Coromandel Peninsula. A rich fauna dominated by infaunal ...

New research led by the University of Washington suggests that two different climate transitions millions of years ago fueled ...

(Inside Science) — Nearly two-thirds of mammal species in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula may have died off about 30 million years ago, a mass extinction that escaped detection for decades until now, ...

The new deer has been called Santuccimeryx, meaning “Santucci’s ruminant." A new genus of tiny, hornless deer that lived in South Dakota during the Oligocene Epoch approximately 32 million years ago ...

The climate change that occurred about 34 million years ago may hold the reason as to why humans originated in Africa and not in Asia. More specifically, the deterioration of climate marking the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The oldest ape and Old World monkey fossils have been unearthed in a riverbed in Tanzania, a new ...