The Eocene, a critical period in Earth's climate history, encompassed profound climatic and oceanographic reorganization from the greenhouse conditions of the early Eocene to the icehouse state of the ...

A study by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country into the paleodiet of extinct paleotheriidae (or pseudo horses) provides information about their feeding strategy and the environment they ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The ancient oceans of the Eocene epoch teemed with ...

Plant fossils dating back 55 to 40 million years ago, during the Eocene epoch reveal details about the warmer and wetter climate. These conditions meant there were palms at the North and South Pole ...

The Eocene epoch witnessed a dramatic reorganisation of mammalian communities in response to rapid climatic shifts, notably the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum and subsequent cooling. Across ...

In western India, strata of old rocks are providing a glimpse of what may have been a world of heat, a world of creeping continents, and one of giant reptiles. The fossil evidence discovered in ...

Toward the end of the Eocene epoch 35 million years ago, temperatures plummeted and the Earth’s primitive inhabitants endured a cold spell that lasted 100,000 years. The length of that ordeal and what ...

The oldest known fossil of a singing cicada reveals that these insects were making music during the Eocene epoch — long before humans existed. “The fossil has been in the collection of the Senckenberg ...

Earth's tropical rain belt, responsible for monsoons that sustain billions of people and vibrant ecosystems, has long been a reliable feature of the planet's climate. But new research reveals this ...