Scientists have discovered a nearly complete skull of a Hyaenodonta, a hypercarnivore that that lived during the Oligocene Epoch some 20 million years ago. Scientifically known as Bastetodon syrtos, ...

Million-Year-Old Fossil of a Female Bee Well Preserved in Organic Mudstone Discovered, Oldest Bee Specimen Bees are mostly seen buzzing around and working hard to turn nectar from flowers into liquid ...

Wilson collected specimens from the Eocene Willwood Formation in Wyoming, the Miocene Pawnee Creek Formation in Colorado, and the Eocene/Oligocene White River Group in Colorado. Koerner focused on the ...

1) A deficient fossil record. There are few Oligocene sites in Africa that represent the appropriate time period, and although there are several early Miocene sites, many of their catarrhine taxa ...

Lower Miocene and Oligocene sands, with recoverable volumes estimated at approximately 136 million barrels of oil. Additionally, the Lumpembe-1 oil discovery on Block 15/06 that was drilled in ...