Messel Pit is the richest site in the world for understanding the living environment of the Eocene, between 57 million and 36 million years ago. In particular, it provides unique information about the ...

For the first time, a fossilized true cicada has been described from the Messel Pit deposits. Eoplatypleura messelensis is one of the oldest known representatives of the modern-day true cicadas in ...

An astonishing, 47 million-year-old find: scientists in Germany have uncovered and identified the fossil of a true cicada. It ...

Eoplatypleura messelensis is the oldest known true cicada ever identified in Europe. For the first time, a fossilized true cicada has been identified from the Messel Pit deposits. Eoplatypleura messel ...

Fossil of Eoplatypleura messelensis, the oldest known cicada, discovered in Germany’s Messel Pit and dating back 47 million years to the Eocene Epoch. Senckenberg Nature Museum.

More than 500 bat fossils have been discovered at the Messel Pit UNESCO World Heritage Site over 42 years. A new study, published today in the journal Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments ...

It was found in the Messel Pit in Germany, in rocks that are approximately 47 million years old. Senckenberg. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.

The 47-million-year-old fossil was excavated from an oil shale slab at the Messel Pit formation. This geological deposit and UNESCO World Heritage Site in central Germany dating back to the Eocene ...

This fossil of an adult female cicada is remarkably well preserved. It was found in the Messel Pit in Germany, in rocks that are approximately 47 million years old.