Recently researchers uncovered fossils of what they believe to be a new species of prehistoric animal "worm lizard" in North ... 50 million years ago in the Eocene epoch, stated Newsweek.

The fossils belong to a species of amphisbaenian from the Eocene epoch, about 50 million years ... scaly exterior like a lizard and have a head similar to a snake. Related species are still ...

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Another important discovery is the identification of a new gecko species from the earliest Eocene in Belgium, which highlights the presence of thermophilic lizards during a period of warm global ...

The earless monitor lizard is one of the rarest reptile species ... Originating in the Eocene epoch, tapirs have undergone relatively little change in their basic form since then.

Analyses of pollen and spores and the remains of tiny creatures have given a climatic picture of the early Eocene period, about 53 million years ago. The study in Nature suggests Antarctic winter ...

Ancient horses, early tapirs, large land crocodiles as well as giant tortoises, lizards and numerous birds ... expands our understanding of the Eocene Epoch in the Geiseltal even though the ...