By JOSEPH LELYVELD. Author of 'On the Road' was Hero to Youth--Rejected Middle-Class Values ack Kerouac, the novelist who named the Beat Generation and exuberantly celebrated its rejection of middle-class American conventions, died early yesterday of massive abdominal hemorrhaging in a St. Petersburg, Fla., hospital. He was 47 years old.
Primates are relative newcomers on our planet. The earliest ones are found in the fossil record dating to 50-55 million years ago. These first prosimians thrived during the Eocene Epoch. There were no monkeys or apes for them to compete with yet.he first true primates evolved by 55 million years ago or a bit earlier, near the beginning of the Eocene Epoch. Their fossils have been found in North America, Europe, and Asia. They looked different from the primates today.
The Rhinocerotidae family first appeared in Eurasia in the Late Eocene, and the ancestral families of the existent rhino species detached from Asia in the early beginnings of the Miocene Period. 6. Kakapo (70-80 Million Years) Kakapos are the oldest known species of parrot, and diverged from the genus Nestor about 70 to 80 million years ago. During the breakup of New Zealand about 82 million years ago, the Kakapo became isolated from many other parrot species that existed during that time. Like many tropical species in New Zealand, Kakapos inhabit coastal areas, scrublands, and forests. They mostly feed on natural plants, seeds, fruits and a variety of nutrition from plants and trees.