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, ...

A new study reveals that vegetation shifts—triggered by global cooling and paleogeographic change—also accelerated major climate changes during the Late Miocene, creating a feedback loop.

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 ...

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 ...