A new family tree of apes that lived in the Miocene between 23 and 5.3 million years ago reveals which are our close relatives and which are only distant cousins. Close. Advertisement.

In the shadow of the mountains of southern Germany, the ancient bed of a flowing river now sits as a clay pit below the ... during the Miocene Epoch, and existed as an ancient ancestor of modern ...

The Miocene, 23 to 5 million years ago ... NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has been traveling through a transition zone from a clay-rich region to one filled with a salty mineral called sulfate.

Chinese scientists have revealed how the last hominoids in the Euroasia continent survived during the Miocene period (5.33 to 23 million years ago). A fossil anthropoid discovered in 2009 in ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? For 600,000 years during the tail end of the Miocene epoch, the Mediterranean was a dried-up salt plain cut off from the Atlantic Ocean.

In a clay pit in southern Germany ... The species lived 11.6 million years ago, during the Miocene Epoch, and existed as an ancient ancestor of modern day apes and humans. Now, the same team ...