Back to the Miocene: What the climate 13.8 million years ago could tell us about our future world Scientists look to the Miocene for clues of what we might expect from global heating caused by ...

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.

An exquisitely preserved fossil forest from Japan provides missing links and helps reconstruct a whole Eurasia plant from the late Miocene epoch.

The fossils from McGraths Flat in Australia include soft-bodied animals, fungi, and plants from the Miocene epoch.

A Miocene whale fossil, including skull and vertebrae, was discovered on California’s Gaviota Coast and excavated by the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

During the late Miocene epoch, about seven million years ago, large areas of the continents experienced drying, enhanced seasonality, and a restructuring of terrestrial plant and animal ...

Antarctic Drilling Provides Climate Clues From Middle Miocene Date: November 29, 2007 Source: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Summary: A second season in Antarctica for the Antarctic Geological ...

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

Humans Family tree of extinct apes reveals our early evolutionary history A new family tree of apes that lived in the Miocene between 23 and 5.3 million years ago reveals which are our close ...

The undisclosed site, near the Sierra Nevada foothills, features possibly thousands of fossils, including specimens such as mastodons, giant camels and long-extinct plants.

An exquisitely preserved fossil forest from Japan provides missing links and helps reconstruct a whole Eurasia plant from the late Miocene epoch.