Scientists have shed new light on the rhino family tree after recovering a protein sequence from a fossilized tooth from more ...

A fossilized rhino tooth reveals ancient proteins, pushing back the timeline of rhino evolution by millions of years.

But until now, no fossils older than 20 million years had been found. The age of the new specimens extends the origin of apes and Old World monkeys into the Oligocene Epoch, which lasted from 34 ...

Calling all amateur paleontologists! Explore the badlands of Nebraska and hunt for fossils at this remote destination inside Oglala National Grassland.

Researchers have unearthed a "mother lode" of a half-dozen fossil primate species in southern China.These primates eked out an existence just after the Eocene-Oligocene transition, when drastic ...

A nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a new species of Hyaenodonta, an apex carnivore that mysteriously went extinct about 25 million years ago.

Glowing spider fossils prompt breakthrough study of how they ... What are the unique chemical and geological processes at Aix-en-Provence that preserve spiders from the Oligocene Period so ...

An artist's reconstruction of two new Oligocene primates, ... The oldest ape and Old World monkey fossils have been unearthed in a riverbed in Tanzania, a new study reports.

Here we report a late Oligocene fossil assemblage from Ethiopia, which constrains the migration to postdate 27 Myr ago, and yields new insight into the indigenous faunal dynamics that preceded ...

Fossils of the Late Oligocene were found at Kangaroo Well in the Northern Territory and Etadunna Formation at Lake Palankarinna, South Australia, ...