Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The ancient oceans of the Eocene epoch teemed with ...

In western India, strata of old rocks are providing a glimpse of what may have been a world of heat, a world of creeping continents, and one of giant reptiles. The fossil evidence discovered in ...

Plant fossils dating back 55 to 40 million years ago, during the Eocene epoch reveal details about the warmer and wetter climate. These conditions meant there were palms at the North and South Pole ...

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The oldest known fossil of a singing cicada reveals that these insects were making music during the Eocene epoch — long before humans existed. “The fossil has been in the collection of the Senckenberg ...