A gaping 200-foot-deep gouge in the forested countryside, the Messel Pit doesn’t at first glance seem worth preserving, never mind visiting, but since 1995 it has been a Unesco World Heritage ...

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 ...

These shimmering harvestmen now live in rainforests, which supports the classification of the Messel Pit as a subtropical to tropical forest habitat. At that time, tropical arachnids lived in ...

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 ...

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.