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 ...

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 ...

Miocene period fossil forest of Wataria found in Japan. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 07 / 230721113246.htm ...

The timing of this palaeo-oceanographic change coincides with the onset of the middle Miocene climatic optimum3, ... Schematic map of the present ocean circulation in the Arctic Ocean.

“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.

Limitations on the Miocene as a proxy for our future world. Sadly, the taxodonts will not grace our future world. The long-armed, horsey Chalicotheriidae, reminiscent of Bojack Horseman, ...