Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today’s animals — including humans — may struggle, or fail, to survive. Yet ...
New research reveals that shifts in plant life played a key role in speeding up major climate changes during the late Miocene, a period spanning 11.6 to 5.3 million years ago. During this time, ...
An international team has identified a new amphicyonid species, named Paludocyon moyasolai, from a skull found 30 years ago ...
Fossil lower jaws found north of Cairo in Egypt reveal a previously unknown early Miocene ape that lived around 17 to 18 million years ago. The teeth and jaw features suggest a flexible fruit-based ...
Some periods in Earth history are so different from our own that they may as well belong to another planet. Many people are ...
Lions may get all the good press about being "king of the jungle," but the modern animal that has no predators in the wild, except for man, is the rhinoceros and that probably was the case as ...
Ancient anaconda fossils show that the snakes became giants soon after emerging in Miocene South America. Their size has stayed stable for over 12 million years, even though other huge reptiles went ...
The largest shark to ever terrorize the oceans was the iconic megalodon, which popped up during the Miocene era roughly 15 ...
The vegetation in northern high latitudes was likely dense forest before cooling temperatures transformed it into grassland during the Late Miocene —a shift that further accelerated global cooling.
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