Tapirs are often called “living fossils” because they have changed very little since the Eocene Epoch, which was between 56 and 33.9 million years ago. There are four species of tapirs on ...

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 ...