They hunted in African ecosystems after the extinction of the dinosaurs ... This timespan captures the transition from the Eocene’s global warming to the Oligocene’s global cooling, and ...

A fossil of a brand new species of ancient snake has been uncovered in India, and it may have been one of the largest snakes to have ever existed. The ancient species, Vasuki indicus, is thought ...

The first known specimens date back to the Late Eocene era (56 to 33.9 million ... and ultimately contributed to their extinction,” said Montserrat Grau-Camats. “The last American ...

This animal lived during the Eocene Epoch, around 41 to 34 million yeast ago ... Other animals adapted, and outcompeted the Embolotherium into extinction.

Everyone knows about the dinosaur extinction but not many know about the rise of mammals that followed, such as the gomphotheres. This group of proboscideans began roaming on Earth around the end of ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Fossils from the Eocene mudflats of Utah reveal four new ichnospecies, indicating diverse foraging behaviors of ancient waterbirds. These trace fossils ...

Pictured are two of Colossal's "woolly mice". Dallas-based biotech startup Colossal aims to bring the woolly mammoth back from extinction through genetic engineering. As part of that process ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Permian mass extinction, 252 million years ago, was linked to a 10°C rise in global temperatures due to massive volcanic CO 2 emissions. This led to climate ...

The Great Dying marks the transition from the Permian to the Triassic period, so it’s often referred to as the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, or the Permian-Triassic Boundary. If “Triassic ...

Steve Forbes warns that dropping birthrates are putting our civilization at existential risk—and discusses what humanity must do to reverse course before we all disappear. Are humans doomed to ...

The startup has raised over $400 million to fund its de-extinction and conservation missions. Its founder and CEO, Ben Lamm, told BI about the potential revenue streams the startup is exploring.