For about half the travelers who stop in, Fossil Butte National Monument is merely a rest area on a lonely stretch of U.S.

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.

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 ...

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"The fossils go about as far back as we can go in ... Republic dates back to the Eocene, the epoch when the earliest relatives of many of today's familiar plants took root. What's more, Republic ...

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 ...

Fossil Atmospheres offered several ways to be involved in ... There is one period of time that we are particularly interested in, this is the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM for short. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

The event is known as the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM ... resembling some form of enormous sauna. As an aside, a fossil of a kind of prehistoric “killer badger” was found with ...

and fossil lorises and galagids. During the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene, parts of this area were warm, wet, seasonal forests influenced by monsoons. Several strepsirrhine groups disappear ...