In April, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History announced that it had successfully excavated the fossilized remains of a mid-Miocene whale and had relocated the remains to the museum for ...

In April, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History announced that it had successfully excavated the fossilized remains of a mid-Miocene whale and had relocated the remains to the museum for ...

Malleodectids lived in Australia during the Oligo-Miocene. Their fossilised teeth – found at the Riversleigh World Heritage Area in north-western Queensland – indicate these long-extinct carnivorous ...

Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, sebecids were top predators until they went extinct during the Miocene. (Image Credit: Illustration by Jorge Machuky) We often picture the ...

Athletic, crocodile-like reptiles with bladed teeth made their last stand in the Caribbean as recently as 4.5 million years ago. New fossils unearthed in the Dominican Republic suggest the reptile ...

A construction project at San Pedro High School in Los Angeles revealed nearly 9-million-year-old sea creature fossils buried under the school. Scientists believe the area was once fully ...

BEIJING, May 8 (Xinhua) -- A new study has revealed that changes in plant life had played a crucial role in speeding up major climate shifts during the late Miocene, a period that lasted from 11.6 to ...