This article was originally published on Sept. 20, 2022. During the late Miocene epoch, between 5 and 7 million years ago, East Africa looked very different compared to today. Rather than dry deserts, ...

Maybe looking to the past can give us clues. For prehistory fans, the Miocene, with its fantastic mammal life, is an immensely attractive period. From Dryopithecus, a lineage of extinct primates ...

Epicyon haydeni, or Hayden’s bone-crushing dog, roamed North America between 12 and 6 million years ago during the middle to late Miocene epoch. Its fossils have been discovered in at least 12 ...

New research reveals that shifts in plant life played a key role in speeding up major climate changes during the late Miocene, a period spanning 11.6 to 5.3 million years ago. During this time ...

Studies on these specimens are providing the researchers with information about the Miocene epoch and, in particular, about the lives and habits of this species of rhinoceros, which, the UB scientists ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? For 600,000 years during the tail end of the Miocene epoch, the Mediterranean was a dried-up salt plain cut off from the Atlantic Ocean.

The turtle roamed present-day Venezuela and Colombia during the late Miocene Epoch. Fossils of a giant turtle that was as big as a car were discovered in South America, scientists reported in a ...