A 47-million-year-old cicada fossil has been discovered in Europe.

The study of biogeography and paleoecology during the Mesozoic-Cenozoic era provides essential insights into how past ...

Eoplatypleura messelensis is the oldest known true cicada ever identified in Europe. For the first time, a fossilized true ...

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According to the team from this study, only around 44 cicada fossils have been dated from the Cenozoic era beginning about 66 million years ago.

These crocodile-like beasts reached the Caribbean, outlasting mainland kin Sebecids look straight out of the Age of Dinosaurs, but may have lived just 4 million years ago ...

The park also holds evidence of the shift from the Age of the Reptiles (the Mesozoic era) to the Age of the Mammals (the Cenozoic era). The first of the reptiles discovered at Big Bend dates back ...

The Chicxulub asteroid, for example, pushed the Earth into the Cenozoic Era, and 65 million years later, experts are pondering if we’ve entered a new geologic age induced by modern humans (and ...

Phorusrhacids, as they are known by their scientific name, were meat-eating birds that during the Cenozoic Era were at the top of the food chain. They had slender bodies, huge beaks and could run ...