A Miocene fish fossil with soft tissue and intact pigmentation has been discovered in New South Wales, revealing prehistoric ...

Buried in Australia's so-called dead heart, a trove of exceptional fossils, including those of trapdoor spiders, giant ...

A mysterious spider fossil uncovered in Australia is turning heads with its unexpected size and age. Hidden beneath layers of ancient rainforest, it belonged to a species scientists had never seen ...

IN looking over any modern historical narrative — such, for example, as Knight’s History of England — one cannot fail to be struck by the disproportion between the amounts of space devoted ...

It may also help them understand Australia’s ancient ecosystems during the Miocene, when the continent’s climate was shifting. “At the time these fish died and were preserved, that was a ...

Notable events took place in the Miocene. Afro-Arabia collided with Eurasia, mountains were actively building on multiple continents, and the Messinan Salinity Crisis struck the Mediterranean. Overall ...

If you thought Australia’s spiders were scary, wait until you see the prehistoric version, because everyone online is losing their minds over it. Scientists have found a fossilised giant trapdoor ...

Oceanography, Vol. 33, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE ON PALEOCEANOGRAPHY: LESSONS FOR A CHANGING WORLD (JUNE 2020), pp. 32-41 (10 pages) Studies of ancient sea levels provide insights into the mechanisms and ...

The Miocene is even named using the Greek words for “less” and “new.” In the oceans, molluscs and crocodilians radiated into diverse new forms. Continents were arranged quite similarly to ...

Around 6 million years ago, between the Miocene and Pliocene epochs—or ... desiccated salt plain between the European and African continents. Until, that is, this roughly 600,000-year-long ...

However, a new study revealed that their origins trace back to the Miocene, when the Japanese archipelago separated from the continent. Japan Sea element plants are generally thought to have ...