... showed only rock surface.
In another fossil of a bird from the Eocene Epoch — 55 million years ago — in Denmark there were similar traces in the feathers surrounding the skull. That ...
... examples of such transitional forms that he uncovered in museum collections of underwater fossilized creatures from the Eocene epoch--about 50 million years ago.
"We owe this discovery, in part, to ...
... a greenhouse gas. During a thermal maximum 55 million years ago, which marked the boundary between the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, the planet warmed rapidly by five to eight °C; the pattern of deep- ...
... During the early part of the Eocene epoch, primates were common in the tropical forests that covered most of North ... Utah and Wyoming during the late middle Eocene, west Texas provided a humid, tropical ...
... magnetic fossils of a previously unknown species of microorganism that lived at the boundary of the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, some 55 million years ago. Their results were published Oct. 21 in the ...
... and analysis of mineral samples formed during the Eocene Epoch, the warmest period on earth in the last 65 ... 're doing now, we will be up to the CO2 levels of the Eocene within another 100 or 200 years." ...
... rise, with a much more dramatic increase and decline at the end of the Eocene epoch, about 33 million years ago.
With the new timeline, diatoms achieved their peak diversity at least 10 ...
... haven't had much scientific information about what happened."
Before the cooling occurred at the end of the Eocene epoch, the Earth was warm and wet, and even the north and south poles experienced ...
... how were Earth's animals, plants, oceans, and climate affected? Focusing on the end of the Eocene epoch and the Eocene-Oligocene transition was a critical but very brief interval in Earth's history.
... department.
The surprising menagerie of Arctic creatures during the early Eocene epoch, which lasted from roughly 50 million to 55 million years ago, first became evident in 1975 ...
... region revealed ice-rafted debris dating back to the middle Eocene epoch, prompting suggestions that ice appeared in the Arctic about 46 million years ago. But records of ice-rafted ...
... and information on the fossil plants and mammals that inhabited North America during the Eocene epoch and found that diversity increased and declined with rising and falling temperatures.
The Eocene ...
... 's Messel Pit, where creatures trapped in
47-million-year-old shale have been helping scientists better
understand life during the Eocene epoch.
