The new track is a relaxed, atmospheric piece of mood music written by drummer Paul Seidel, though it was synth player Peter Voigtmann who actually played drums on the song. "Oligocene" offers a ...

Profound environmental and faunal changes are associated with climatic deterioration during the Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT) roughly 34 million years ago. Primates are among the most ...

The five new skulls represent two new species: Coronodon planifrons and Coronodon newtonorum, and young juveniles of Coronodon havensteini New specimens of Coronodon havensteini include an old adult ...

Thirty-nine macrofossil taxa are recorded from the late Oligocene (Duntroonian to mid Waitakian) Torehina Formation at Waitete Bay, northern Coromandel Peninsula. A rich fauna dominated by infaunal ...

Oxygen isotopes data enable researchers to look far back into the geologic past and reconstruct the climate of the past. In doing so, they consider several factors such as ocean temperature and ice ...

Researchers have unearthed a "mother lode" of a half-dozen fossil primate species in southern China.These primates eked out an existence just after the Eocene-Oligocene transition, when drastic ...

Ecological reconstruction of giant rhinos and their accompanying fauna in northwest China during the Oligocene. The giant rhino, genus Paraceratherium, was a hornless, long-necked herbivore living in ...

The climate change that occurred about 34 million years ago may hold the reason as to why humans originated in Africa and not in Asia. More specifically, the deterioration of climate marking the ...