“Given that the Chicxulub impact likely led to a major extinction event, we were curious to investigate whether what appeared as a series of sizeable asteroid impacts during the Eocene also ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...