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An apex carnivore was ‘king of the ancient Egyptian forest’ then mysteriously went extinct. A fossil could offer clues
The Eocene-Oligocene boundary was a global cooling event that occurred about 34 million years ago, causing mass extinction and major faunal turnover. The hyaenodonts that survived then showed how ...
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African, Arabian Mammals Didn’t Escape Grande Coupure Extinction
T he end of the Eocene (~33.9 million years ago) was a rough time for many species. It was a period marked by global cooling and drops in sea level, and in Eurasia, these global environmental impacts ...
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Giant Flying Squirrel Soared Through The North American Skies Nearly 5 Million Years Ago
The first known specimens date back to the Late Eocene era (56 to 33.9 million years ago ... and ultimately contributed to their extinction,” said Montserrat Grau-Camats. “The last American ...
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Effects of Climate Change on Primate Evolution in the Cenozoic
Geologica Carpathica 50, 339-349 (1999). Seiffert, E.R. Evolution and Extinction of Afro-Arabian primates near the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary. Folia Primatologica 78, 314-327 (2007). Smith ...