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.

The team named the new genus Bastetodon partly in reference to the cat-headed ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, in honor of where the specimen was unearthed and of the feline-like snout of the ancient ...

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 ...

Anacardites franklinensis, a species defined by Wolfe from the Eocene Puget Group ... D, Insect body fossils have not been found in the Burnaby Mountain sediments, but some examples of insect ...

Therefore the aquatic cetaceans (toothed and baleen whales) that began to appear 50 million years ago in the Eocene must have evolved from terrestrial ... Two separate discoveries of ancient whale ...

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 ...

There is one period of time that we are particularly interested in, this is the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum ... We are collecting and imaging lots of modern and fossil Ginkgo leaves, including ...

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 ...