Sarah Naone, and Dr. Brooks Britt described the discovery and classification of four new ichnotaxa (fossilized trace taxa) from the Eocene mudflat successions of Utah. The study, published in the ...

The team named the new genus Bastetodon partly in reference to the cat-headed ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet ... shift from the warming climate of the Eocene (which lasted from 56–33.9 million ...

fossil evidence of pelicans dates back at least 36 million years to the remains of a tibiotarsus recovered from late Eocene strata of Egypt that bears striking similarity to modern species of pelican.