Aspidostoma from Oligocene at Cape Otway

Here is a drawing of Phoberogale Bugtiensis, a Hemicyonine Bear that lived during the Oligocene, it lived in what is now Pakistan

OLIGOCENE!

All rhinos studied were C3 feeders, whether browser or mix-feeders, but we noted a clear shit in their isotopic signal during the latest Oligocene consistent with the global changes of the time!

🦖 Daily Dino 🦖; Andrewsornis abbotti

From Late Oligocene Sarmiento Formation, and potentially the Agua De La Piedra Formation, Argentina, 'Andrew's bird' is a large phorusrhacid 'Terror Bird'. It differs from the similar Phorusrhacos in having a flatter skull and slimmer jaw.

Also I don't care if scientists agree with this or not, hyenas definitely are direct descendants of all those eocene / myocene / oligocene 'is it a wolf, is it a lion or is it a bear?' species. Shout out to those goofy goobers (in a positive way).

Massimo 30 Million-year-old Praying Mantis is preserved in amber found in Dominican Republic. The piece in question is dated to the Oligocene period, placing it anywhere from about 23 million to 33.9 million years old. The amber itself derives from the extinct Hymenaea protera, a…

A thin piece of Oligocene silicified wood from west-central Louisiana. The magnified view looks like an abstract painting. #FossilFriday #fossils

🔍 Meet the Palaeotherium, a fascinating extinct beast from the Eocene to the earliest Oligocene era! 🌍 This creature, first described by French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1800s, was one of the first Paleogene mammals to be identified.

I'm late in communicating about it, but it's #fossilfriday so I guess it's a good timing to tell you about our last preprint! 👀

This work is part of my first post doc in Munich on glaciations and rhinos' paleoecology 🦏

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Protozoan parasites of birds from the Tremembé formation (Oligocene of the Taubaté Basin), São Paulo, Brazil dlvr.it/T5zvj8

I just wanna point out that you can realistically draw these two (Otodus and Hexanchus) interacting since the Hex would only be too happy to chow down on Megfalls in the abyss. I mean Hex was eating dead Oligocene megatooths in Australian deposits (best Otodus angustidens)

Trovati resti di un bizzarro mammifero dell’Oligocene dlvr.it/T5tdks #Attualità

Oligocene and Aquitanian Gastropod Faunas from the Sultanate of Oman and their biogeographic implications for the early western Indo-Pacific eurekamag.com/research/021/4…

Northwest Scientific Association abstract submitted! Join us next month in Spokane to hear me talk about the Oligocene world in which these weirdos lived!

Paleoart by Ray Troll, trollart.com

Gary Savage Kev كيفين Pluck 🇵🇸🇺🇦 During that period, known as the Oligocene, Earth's temp was 4 to 6 degrees C higher than today.

Apropos appleseed, a Redditor calculated that one would have to consume 250,000 appleseeds to have a fatal dose of cyanide.
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#geoubcsic Nonlinear increase in seawater 87Sr/86Sr in the Oligocene to early Miocene and implications for climate-sensitive weathering. Stoll, HM; Pena, LD; Hernandez-Almeida;... CLIMATE OF THE PAST 20:1 [2024] doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-…

Protozoan parasites of birds from the Tremembé formation (Oligocene of the Taubaté Basin), São Paulo, Brazil
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otago.ac.nz/geology/resear… the Oligocene megatooth is pretty underrated. This fossil from Aotearoa is also underrated.

Chris Stringer Thnx. Might they've come possibly from #Patagonia ? after the Oligocene Oi1 #Antarctica freeze ~33.55 Mya, they had developed from the sloth (today's #DrakePassage ), survived around #WestPacific , after the #Bflood , populated the #SouthernCone & crossed to #Africa . #Neanderthal