In ancient China, spring rains were called "as precious as oil" for their vital role in nature's spring revival. Today, a ...

M ove over dinosaurs!After the end of the Cretaceous period, when the dinosaurs went extinct, prehistoric mammals began to ...

Scientists have discovered a nearly complete skull of a Hyaenodonta, a hypercarnivore that that lived during the Oligocene Epoch some 20 million years ago. Scientifically known as Bastetodon syrtos, ...

E. D. Cope, struck by the remarkable fact that the molar teeth, both upper and lower, of all the mammals from the Puerco or lowest Eocene horizon of North America carry three cusps arranged in ...

The event is known as the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM ... but this is the period where all sorts of new mammals evolved. A kind of prehistoric “killer badger” was found with ...

During the Eocene epoch, this snake shared its marine habitat ... could have ranged from fish and small crocodilians to turtles, mammals or small whales. The snake's size would have deterred ...

known primarily from the Eocene, which might be closely related to tarsiers and anthropoids Paleocene - a geologic epoch from ~65.5 to ~55.8 million years ago Pliocene - a geologic epoch from ~5.3 ...

Hyaenodonts like Bastetodon evolved long before modern cats, dogs, hyenas, and other carnivorous mammals ... capture the transition from the warm Eocene epoch to the cooler Oligocene epoch ...