P rojections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of ...

“During the Miocene baleen whales were small, but sperm whales would have constituted a perfect fat repository due to their greatly enlarged and lipid-rich nasal organs,” said Benites-Palomino.

Miocene CO 2 emissions were slow enough to avoid significant ocean acidification, for example, unlike today and during extreme past climate changes.

About 2,000 well-preserved fossils tell researchers about the Miocene, a little-understood but pivotal time period in Australia's natural history.

An unidentified horse skull from the Miocene epoch, discovered at a fossil-rich site in the Mokelumne River watershed, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. (Contributed by Sean Nies/Chico State) ...

A Miocene gathering place. During the late Miocene, the region south of what is now Madrid was a mix of woodland and grassland, dotted with watering holes sunk into cavities in the underlying ...

Since the flat was discovered, paleontologists have catalogued more than 2,000 fossils from the Miocene, an epoch that stretches from 23 to 5 million years ago.

A fossil discovery of an ancient relative of the Australian magpie which lived in New Zealand some 19 million years ago challenges the understanding of ‘native’ species.