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

In a remote fossil site in eastern Australia, researchers have unearthed a prehistoric spider of such impressive size and preservation that it is reshaping how scientists view arachnid evolution on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr Johann Klages from the Alfred Wegener Institute told Yahoo News that despite DNA breaking down very quickly, there’s a slim chance traces could have survived because of the polar continent ...

The largest continent, Asia covers an area of 44.6 million square kilometres (17.2 million square miles) and has a staggering population of approximately 4.6 billion people. It is characterised by ...

ABSTRACT: The Oligocene-Miocene trajectory exposed at the Lubuk Lawas and Lubuk Bernai Stratigraphic Tracks in Bukit Tigapuluh, Jambi Subbasin, Indonesia, archives remnants of equatorial vegetation ...

Adam says the climate was drying out and the land was becoming the modern-day arid continent ... the site is from the middle of the late Miocene epoch. "Late Miocene is an epoch that spans ...

A rich fossil and sediment record exists from the mid-Miocene. Marine sediments off WA suggest the west and southwest part of Australia was arid. In contrast, the continent’s east was very wet.

Across the planet, water makes up 71% of Earth’s surface. The remaining space is covered by land — continents and islands. Before Earth’s land formed the seven continents in the present day ...