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, ...

Lázaro W. Viñola López et al. 2025. A South American sebecid from the Miocene of Hispaniola documents the presence of apex predators in early West Indies ecosystems. Proc. R. Soc. B 292 (2045): ...

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 ...

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 ...

The massive jawbone, measuring nearly 4 meters in length, has been dated to approximately 12-15 million years ago during the Middle Miocene epoch, a time when giant marine mammals were diversifying in ...

Radiolaria: A large and diverse group of single-celled marine organisms that construct their shells from silica. Seasonality: Changes in timing, duration, or intensity of the within-year ...

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 ...

THE two-dimensional structure of montmorillonite has been illustrated by electron micrographs of the face view of the plates 1–3. We report what we believe to be the first micrograph to be ...

Both the initial well and a subsequent sidetrack encountered oil in high-quality Miocene reservoirs. bp plc discovered oil at the Far South prospect 120 miles off the coast of Louisiana in ...