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

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

While there are no extant Old World vultures in the Americas today, a large diversity of Gypaetinae are known from Miocene to late Pleistocene fossil deposits.

“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.

The middle of the Miocene epoch, about 14 million years ago, was marked by global cooling and the expansion of the Antarctic ice sheet. Marine sediment geochemistry indicates this cooling was ...

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.