For decades, an "extremely rare" fossil sat unidentified in Japan's Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in ...

The fossil, which was unearthed in the Fayum ... The skull dates back to the early Oligocene Epoch around 30 million years ago, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of Vertebrate ...

Of course, only fossils remain—not even the descendants of the Palaeocastor are still living. “The entire lineage died out during the Oligocene Epoch when the world was changing,” said William Korth, ...

Badlands National Park is a vast wilderness of jagged buttes, spires and pinnacles, mixed-grass prairies, and the world’s richest trove of fossils from the Oligocene epoch, estimated at 23 to 35 ...

Harris introduced the first vertebrate paleontology laboratory classes, allowing students to study real fossil materials, and she made significant contributions to the collection by collecting from ...

Which adaptations were likely present in the earliest hominoids? 1) A deficient fossil record. There are few Oligocene sites in Africa that represent the appropriate time period, and although ...

Parts of Afro-Arabia also supported primates during the Oligocene. Dozens of fossil primate species are ... 65.5 million years ago Eocene - a geologic epoch from ~55.8 to ~33.9 million years ...