But Professor Michael Petraglia, Director of Griffith University’s Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution and co-author on the new study, said fossil evidence from the Late Miocene (marked by ...

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 ...

Ward, who is now pursuing a doctorate at the University of Minnesota, used isotopic analysis of Miocene rhinos as part of a master's research project under the guidance of advisers and study co ...

Using δ18O – a chemical marker of past temperatures – the study showed that color brightness increased during the Miocene and Pliocene. These epochs saw large-scale aridification, which led to more ...

Paleontologists have discovered a newly identified fish species in Australia so well-preserved that they could determine its last meal — dating back up to 16 million years to the Miocene Epoch.