The Pelagornis belonged to the family Pelagornithidae. These birds existed from the Late Paleocene age to the Late Pliocene ...

Paleontological evidence indicates that the camel family (Camelidae) evolved in North America approximately 45 million years ago during the Eocene epoch ... % larger than modern camels. These fossils ...

It has ties to the whale and lived in the Eocene epoch stage of the Paleogene period ... This species of mammoth lived towards the end of the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. The wholly mammoth was ...

Researchers said the discovery of the fossil in Japan extends the distribution of the Tacola group of butterflies and "suggests that during the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene" the genus was ...

The period was marked by major climatic and environmental changes, as global temperatures shifted from the Late Pliocene to the cooler Early Pleistocene. The fossil was found in a slab of rock ...

Bennett: So these Eocene fossils from about 50 million years ago are really cool. They’re telling us a lot about a shallow lakeshore environment [and] the combination of all of these traces ...

A new study is reshaping how scientists date dinosaur fossils in Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park (DPP). Using advanced drone-assisted 3D mapping, researchers have uncovered significant ...

The traces are the only evidence of small lizards’ existence at John Day during the Eocene. “The fossils of the bird and lizard are the first evidence of those groups of animals from that ...

Mississippi has yielded numerous significant fossil discoveries in recent years, including a saber-toothed cat jaw and a Columbian mammoth tusk. The state's diverse fossil record spans from ...