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 ...

Discovered in Australia, the fossils represent a new species that lived during the Miocene epoch and highlight how iron-rich ...

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.