Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

Scientists have discovered a nearly complete skull of a Hyaenodonta, a hypercarnivore that that lived during the Oligocene Epoch some 20 million years ago. Scientifically known as Bastetodon syrtos, ...

"Hominines may have originated in Eurasia during the late Miocene, or they may have dispersed into Eurasia from an unknown African ancestor," the study concluded. "The diversity of hominins in ...

We begin this discussion of our species' evolution in Africa, near the end of the geological time period known as the Miocene, just before our lineage diverged from that of chimpanzees and bonobos.

In the early Miocene, primates found in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula were a diverse group that occupied tropical forests and woodlands (Figure 3). During the mid-Miocene, Africa reconnected ...

The results placed Anadoluvius firmly within the hominine lineage, indicating a closer evolutionary relationship with African apes and humans than with other apes of the Miocene era. Mediterranean ...

If Böhme’s group is correct, Hammerschmiede represents the first locale outside Africa to have hosted two Miocene great ape species at the same time. The Miocene Epoch extended from about 23 ...

Robinson also expanded the collection internationally, adding Miocene faunas from Tunisia and late Pliocene fossils from South Africa. In 1972, Judith Harris joined the UCM, spearheading a revitalized ...