New research reveals that shifts in plant life played a key role in speeding up major climate changes during the late Miocene ...

A new study reveals that changes in plant life played a crucial role in accelerating major climate shifts during the Late ...

What would you eat for lunch, if you knew someone was going to be judging you for it 15 million years later? That was ...

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.

The vegetation in northern high latitudes was likely dense forest before cooling temperatures transformed it into grassland during the Late Miocene —a shift that further accelerated global cooling.