This is a reconstruction of the early Eocene (52 million-year-old) fauna that inhabited the rainforest around a northern British Colombia lake. The tapiroid Heptodon drinks in the shallows, while the ...

The most significant drivers of extinction are habitat loss, climate change, pollution, and invasive species. For the red ...

Paleontologists have uncovered the fossilized lower right canine of a large proborhyaenid sparassodont in the Taubaté Basin of Brazil.

In 1916 the paleontologist H.F. Osborn published one of the strangest books on evolution I have ever read. Titled The Origin and Evolution of Life: On the theory of action, reaction and interaction of ...

Early Eocene forest, Wyoming, U.S. Illustration by Julius Csotonyi, Smithsonian Institution Pollinators play a vital role in fertilising flowers, which grow into seeds and fruits and underpin our ...

A team of geologists and palaeontologists has discovered that, some 50 million years ago, there was a low-lying continent separating Europe from Asia that they have named Balkanatolia. At the time, it ...

A tertiary mammalian fauna from the Avawatz mountains, San Bernardino county, California, by P. C. Henshaw . "Literature cited" (p. 28-30).--Rodents and lagomorphs of the late Tertiary Avawatz fauna, ...

A team of French, American and Turkish palaeontologists and geologists led by CNRS researchers 1 has discovered the existence of a forgotten continent they have dubbed Balkanatolia, which today covers ...