CHICO — A remarkably rich trove of fossilized animal and plant remains is undergoing evaluation and identification by a crew of Chico State paleontologists. The site, whose specific location the ...

An exquisitely preserved fossil forest from Japan provides missing links and helps reconstruct a whole Eurasia plant from the late Miocene epoch. Complete plant fossils are seldom found as a single ...

The origin of the human lineage ~7 million years ago seems far removed from the Early Miocene (23 to 16 million years ago), but in fact there are surprising resonances in the anatomy, environment, and ...

In this contribution we describe and illustrate 14 coral morphospecies collected from the early Miocene Siamaná (Aquitanian–Burdigalian) and Jimol (late Burdigalian) formations of the Cocinetas Basin ...

Thirteen elasmobranch genera, four of which are identified to species, are described from the early to middle Miocene (Burdigalian–Langhian) Awa Group in southwest Japan. Springeria and Narke are the ...

Researchers have identified the fossil of a rare extinct marine mammal in Japan for the first time, shedding light on the climate-driven Miocene epoch spanning roughly 23 million to 10 million years ...