"The fossils go about as far back as we can go in ... Republic dates back to the Eocene, the epoch when the earliest relatives of many of today's familiar plants took root. What's more, Republic ...

The fossils were recovered from the Green River ... Waterbird foraging traces from the early Eocene Green River Formation, Utah, Journal of Paleontology (2025). DOI: 10.1017/jpa.

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 ...

During the first two decades that Gingerich labored to document the Paleocene-Eocene transition, most scientists saw it simply as a time when one set of fossils gave way to another. That ...

A largely complete fossil skull of the "Bastetodon syrtos ... a period that includes a shift from the warming climate of the Eocene (which lasted from 56–33.9 million years ago) to the ...

Fossil Atmospheres offered several ways to be involved in ... There is one period of time that we are particularly interested in, this is the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM for short. It ...

The Eocene, from 56 million to 34 million years ... be an early branch on humanity’s family tree—these and many more fossils provide glimpses of the distant ancestors of species we know ...

Fossilized foraminifera, such as these embedded in Tanzanian limestone, reveal that polar warming during the Eocene, a greenhouse period that offers a glimpse of our potential future climate ...

The collection also contains older fossil bird specimens from the Eocene, Miocene and Pleistocene. In addition to recently extinct species, like moas and elephant birds the Museum also cares for older ...

Clusters of fossil serpulid worm tubes, like these Rotularia from the British Eocene, are common fossils in many Mesozoic and Cenozoic marine rocks The Museum’s collection of fossil annelids is both ...