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The bathornids were lesser-known relatives of the famous South American terror birds that inhabited North America from the Eocene to the Miocene. Here's the largest species, Paracrax gigantea.

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2019-12-23

these funky little deer just love to swim!... roughly the size of a large raccoon, Indohyus and Pakicetus are some of whales' early Eocene ancestors

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2019-11-12

After seeing my Eocene horse piece, someone suggested drawing as a lapdog. I know it’s awful. Sorry not sorry.

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2019-11-05

Went 50 million years back in time, brought back a pet. Inspired by the Eocene horse sketches by . Does this count as self portrait?

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2019-11-04

Celebrate with some ancient bones! "Die Säugetiere des Schweizerischen Eocaens" (1904-12), a classic work in mammalian evolution & part of the Unearthed collection, features of Eocene mammals' teeth & bones. Learn more ➡️ https://t.co/tnRJJW0TrT

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2019-10-31

The first densely sampled of the predatory click-beetle tribe Drilini reveals a gradual evolutionary transition to soft-bodiedness, an origin in the Late & multiple &
Find out more in the October issue: https://t.co/NjRPoqYOq3

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2019-10-30

Subject of my next scene: one of my favorite Cenozoic mammals, the Late Eocene brontotheriid Embolotherium. Wasn't planning on this color scheme, but I kinda love it

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2019-10-25

A display on life in the Paleocene and Eocene featuring the skeleton of a Uintatherium anceps at the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum.

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2019-10-23

Not much from me today for just a simple coloured sketch
- Fraxinus wilcoxiana
Fraxinus wilcoxiana is a type of fossilised seed placed within the modern genus Fraxinus, Ash Trees. Its fossils hale from the Eocene aged Claiborne Formation of North America.

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2019-10-13

Paleocene will be coming to ! Stay tuned....

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2019-10-12

For the oldest European ruminant! Bachitherium thraciensis from Bulgaria & Serbia (ca. 38My, Late Eocene). These fossils explain a tectonical diachronism of the faunal dispersals into Europe at the base of the Oligocene (34My vs 31My).

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2019-09-06


Absence of very large penguins today is likely due to the Oligo-Miocene radiation of marine mammals.

Mayr et al. 2017
A Paleocene from New Zealand substantiates multiple origins of in fossil Sphenisciformes

https://t.co/lsypVXeUde

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2019-06-28

This furtive little creature is Nodontoraptor australis, a descendant of derived Dwelling in the subtropical open forests of Late Eocene Texas, Nodontoraptor was named for one surprising anatomical feature: a completely toothless beak!

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2019-04-18

does it give anyone else full-body chills to think that the light we observe from that black hole bent around it during the EOCENE 55 Ma? Earth looked like this then and had all these cool animals. and that light has been travelling towards us thru space ever since 😭😭😭

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2019-04-11

This plot in & 's brilliant new paper breaks my heart.

The niches were there for dinosaurs to thrive in the Paleocene...but the asteroid took that chance away from them.

But, it opened those same niches to placental mammals, and here we are!

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2019-03-06