Fossil evidence reveals that palm trees once thrived in the Canadian Arctic, challenging everything we know about Earth's ...

Recently, paleontologists Dr. John-Paul Zonneveld, Dr. Sarah Naone, and Dr. Brooks Britt described the discovery and ...

This fossil, misidentified for decades, has been revealed to belong toDiatryma, a massive, flightless bird from the Eocene Epoch ... likely foraged for tough plant materials using its strong ...

Professor Peter Siver's research, published in the journal Annals of Botany, confirms that during the late early Eocene—approximately ... structures formed in plant tissues—from palm trees ...

Anacardites franklinensis, a species defined by Wolfe from the Eocene Puget Group ... D, Insect body fossils have not been found in the Burnaby Mountain sediments, but some examples of insect ...

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 ...

There is one period of time that we are particularly interested in, this is the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum ... we draw about past climate from the fossil leaves. Scott is curator of fossil ...

The event is known as the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum ... also thrived there. Plants grew with smoother edges rather than spiky ones, according to the fossils found. A more jagged edge ...

The researchers discovered tiny silica structures, called phytoliths, which form in plant tissues. These fossils were found ...

Palm phytoliths from the Giraffe Pipe locality, a 48 million-year old Eocene deposit situated in ... microscopic silica structures formed in plant tissues—from palm trees in ancient lakebed ...