Laid out in the study, these fossils show what Florida’s environment looked like 15 million years ago in the middle of the Miocene epoch. “For Florida, it’s a pretty unique site,” Lott said.

In today's video we are hunting some VERY rare sediments for Florida. These sediments are Late Oligocene to Early Miocene in age (around 22-24 million years old or so!) and they hold the ancestor ...

A new fossil study shows that frogs from the genus Eleutherodactylus are geologically the oldest Caribbean vertebrates to be found in Florida. They made the journey 20 million years ago, when much ...

Recently, a diver off the Gulf Coast of Florida made the find of a lifetime, discovering a six-inch tooth from the early Miocene to early Pliocene epochs, ranging from 23 to 3.6 million years ago.

The fossils of these long-extinct beasts belong to gomphotheres — a relative of modern elephants — and date to about 5.5 million years ago, during the Miocene epoch.

The Miocene period dates from 23 to 5 million years ago. A 1,500-pound whale fossil was found along the Gaviota Coast. The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History says the fossil is unique for how ...

A new study reveals that vegetation shifts—triggered by global cooling and paleogeographic change—also accelerated major climate changes during the Late Miocene, creating a feedback loop.