Messel Pit provides the single best fossil site which contributes to the understanding of evolution and past environments during the Palaeogene, a period which ...
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48 million years ago the Messel Pit (close to a coastline of an ocean on the northern hemisphere of our Earth) came into existence by a maar volcano eruption in ...
Fantastic visitor centre which is both interactive and informative where you get to see some amazing fossils. There is also a lookout to complete your visit of ...
Nov 18, 2018 ... If anyone has any tips to get the most of the visit to the Pit, or any other sites near Frankfurt that are worth visiting then I'd love to hear ...
1875: Discovery of a fossil crocodile; 1919: Formal excavation began;. 1966-1975: Systematic excavations carried out to pre-empt amateurs digging for profit;.
... fossils. Around 48 million years ago, the Messel Pit was the site of a deep lake—some two miles across at its peak—where thousands of animals perished. Over ...
Near the scientists' area of operation the guided tour includes an opportunity to examine some 'fresh' fossil finds, including small fish and shiny insects, as ...
The Eocene was an epoch in the evolution of life on earth, when mammals became firmly established in all the principal land ecosystems and took to the air ( ...
We here describe seven new ichneumonid fossil species and two new genera from a remarkable insect fossil site, the Eocene Messel Pit in Germany (~47Ma).
