During the Eocene Epoch, which spanned 56-34 million years ago, gigantic ancient elephant-like animals began to roam through ...

A misidentified Diatryma skull from Germany's Geiseltal region was rediscovered, confirming the rare bird's herbivorous ...

The event is known as the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum ... which led to loads of new kinds of animals. Which leads us onto… The PETM is the period during which primates and social monkeys ...

an African primate from the Eocene epoch, underscoring the evolutionary ties between these ancient populations. The natural world is full of examples of animals undertaking extraordinary journeys ...

A forgotten fossil in a German museum turned out to be a rare Diatryma skull. Scientists corrected a decades-old ...

Fossil evidence suggests it coexisted with other large prehistoric animals, potentially preying ... serpent that emerged during the Eocene epoch, about 26 million years after the dinosaurs ruled ...

appearing in the Eocene epoch, 50 million years ago. Most flying vertebrates evolved shorter bony tails as they took to the skies. Early pterosaurs differed from other flying animals, as they ...