Continents were arranged quite similarly to their configuration today, ... Limitations on the Miocene as a proxy for our future world. Sadly, the taxodonts will not grace our future world.

During the late Miocene epoch, about seven million years ago, large areas of the continents experienced drying, enhanced seasonality, and a restructuring of terrestrial plant and animal communities.

Now, however, paleoclimate researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have found an exception to this pattern in the climate of the late Miocene, about 12 to 5 million years ago. In the ...

During this period in the Middle Miocene (13-17 million years ago), the ice sheet retreated and possibly came close to collapse, ... “However, if the continent warms this could be reversed, ...

During the Miocene epoch, as many as 100 species of apes roamed throughout the Old World. New fossils suggest that the ones that gave rise to living great apes and humans evolved not in Africa but ...

The fossil of a lizard-like New Zealand reptile has been identified by a team of scientists. The fossil, dating back 18 million years, has triggered fresh arguments over whether the continent was ...

Their common ancestor is estimated to have diverged approximately 10 million years ago during the Late Miocene, coinciding with the separation of the Japanese archipelago from the continent.

Since the flat was discovered, paleontologists have catalogued more than 2,000 fossils from the Miocene, an epoch that stretches from 23 to 5 million years ago.

The find suggests overlooked rocks across the continent may contain more fossilized surprises. A fossilized longhorn beetle, found in goethite rock in New South Wales, Australia, and dating to the ...