LAWRENCE -- Supported with a five-year, $580,000 award from the National Science Foundation, scientists from the University of Kansas are departing this month to investigate how climate, plate ...

Additions to the upper Eocene fauna of the Wind River Basin in central Wyoming, based on isolated teeth, include an insectivore, doubtfully identified as Metacodon; three Paramyid rodents, one ...

It may have been the smart evolutionary strategy during a chaotic chapter of Earth’s history, but it didn’t last. By Jack Tamisiea Mammals are the brainiacs of the animal world. The brain of the sperm ...

At head of title: Survey Department, Public Works Ministry. PRELIMINARY NOTE ON SOME NEW MAMMALS FROM THE UPPER EOCENE OF EGYPT BY CW ANDREWS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM NAT HIST AND HUGH JL BEADNELL OF THE ...

About 55 million years ago, the Northern Hemisphere was the site of a major evolutionary makeover: Modern groups of mammals like the ancestors of the horse, deer, goats, primates, and opossumlike ...

During the land-to-water transition in the Eocene epoch, the cetacean skeleton underwent modifications to accommodate life in the seas. These changes are well-documented in the fossil record. The ...

A new article describes two new fossil relatives of marsupials that shed light on how a unique island ecosystem evolved some 43 million years ago during the Eocene. Islands have been vital ...

WASHINGTON, April 13 (Reuters) - The two oldest-known fossil skeletons of bats, unearthed in southwestern Wyoming and dating to at least 52 million years ago, are providing insight into the early ...

A warm snap more than 50 million years ago caused the tiny, adorable ancestors of modern-day horses to shrink, new research suggests. With this new finding, there are two known instances of rising ...

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 ...