at around the time that the animals of the Messel Pit were alive, the mammal placenta was changing. Natural selection was tweaking this organ. In many cases, it was selecting the individual ...

These shimmering harvestmen now live in rainforests, which supports the classification of the Messel Pit as a subtropical to ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

One of the world's most important fossil sites: The Messel Pit is the remnant of a 48-million-year-old volcanic lake! Take a flight over the UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site with our drone.