Carbon emissions rate unprecedented in the past 66 million years
About 55.8 million years, the rate of carbon emissions grew abruptly, leading to a period of massive warming. But today's ...
Tag: Eocene
Jesus lizard ancestor skimmed the tropical waters of Wyoming, 48 million years ago
Paleontologists have discovered what looks like the earliest member of the Corytophanidae (also known as casquehead or helmeted lizards) judging ...
Saber-tooth cats grew their fangs faster than human fingernails
Saber-tooth cats, the bane of early humans (and pretty much every creature that co-existed with them), roamed the Earth for ...
Fossil of Earliest Bird Pollinator Found
Researchers have discovered the earliest evidence of a bird pollinator visiting flowers, presumably to feed on the nectar - if ...
Using a million suns to shed light on a fossilized plant
Scientists have used one of the brightest light sources in the Universe that we know of to expose the biochemical ...
New fossil sheds light on the ancestor of dogs, bears and tigers
Cats, dogs, as well as many well known and loved wild animals such as seals, lions, tigers and bears trace ...
Antarctica was home to a rainforest some 50 million years ago
Scientists who studied sediment cores drilled from the ocean floor off the Antarctic coast, have found on subsequent analysis fossil ...
Diversity is what helped mammals survive through deep time
After the great dinosaur extinction some 65 million years ago, mammals finally had their big shot as numerous niches became ...
Ocean life threatened by mass extinction as acidification rate nears 300 million year max
A newly published paper in the journal Science provides a worrisome report - the world's oceans are acidifying at a ...
The first horse was the size of house cat and got even smaller as climate warmed 56 million years ago
Bergmann’s rule states that mammals of a given genus or species are smaller in hotter climates, and bigger in colder climates. ...