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

A number of tropical plant fossils were found ... shed light on the evolution of southern rainforests during the Eocene epoch ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

These trace fossils are interpreted as recording foraging ... Waterbird foraging traces from the early Eocene Green River Formation, Utah, Journal of Paleontology (2025). DOI: 10.1017/jpa.

Professor Peter Siver's research, published in the journal Annals of Botany, confirms that during the late early Eocene—approximately ... "The discovery of palm fossils this far north provides ...

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 ...

Right at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary a dramatic shift ... deposit of leaves from the PETM. "Many of the plants I had never seen," he said. The fossils he'd already collected showed that before ...

The collection also contains older fossil bird specimens from the Eocene, Miocene and Pleistocene. In addition to recently extinct species, like moas and elephant birds the Museum also cares for older ...