A 47-million-year-old cicada fossil has been discovered in Europe.

Eoplatypleura messelensis is the oldest known true cicada ever identified in Europe. For the first time, a fossilized true cicada has been identified from the Messel Pit deposits. Eoplatypleura messel ...

They say everything's bigger in Texas. And that appears to be true, at least in the case of a group of ancient ...

Chronology of the Eocene continental deposits of Africa: Magnetostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the El Kohol and Glib Zegdou Formations, Algeria Pauline Coster et al., Institut International de ...

The Start family consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Start, who were minor characters who complained about the heat as they sat on cracking and thinning ice. Palaeotheriums are an extinct genus of primitive ...

Pollen grains are far more than allergens — they are also nature’s time capsules, preserving clues about Earth’s past environments for millions of years. Pollen’s tough outer shell enables ...

In a paper published in SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences, a team of researchers conducted a comprehensive study of wildfires during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) in the Nanyang and ...

Increasing urban vegetation by 30% could have saved more than one-third of all heat-related deaths, saving up to 1.16 million lives globally from 2000 to 2019 according to a 20-year modeling study ...

Imagine a world where monstrous beasts, with jaws large enough to crush bones and attitudes as fierce as their appearance, ...

Around 45 million years ago, during the Eocene Epoch, the Geiseltal region of present-day Germany was a vast, humid swamp that teemed with life. Ancient horses, early tapirs, giant tortoises, large ...

Move over dinosaurs! After the end of the Cretaceous period, when the dinosaurs went extinct, prehistoric mammals began to develop and emerge. During the Eocene Epoch, which spanned 56-34 million ...

An estimated 11,000 sq miles or 28,707 sq kilometers of Greenland's ice sheet and glaciers have melted over the last three decades, according to a major analysis of historic satellite records.