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Miocene

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Scientists found a 9-million-year-old capybara relative's tooth in Chile's Atacama Desert, one of Earth's driest places; the water-loving animal adds evidence that the region once supported wetlands and a much wetter climate
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Scientists found a 9-million-year-old capybara relative’s tooth in Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of Earth’s driest places; the water-loving animal adds evidence that the region once supported wetlands and a much wetter climate

  • October 11, 2026
The newly discovered tooth provides another reason to reconsider how the region looked in the distant past, the…
WWildlife
Giant Crocodiles Once Preyed on Massive Mammals in South America
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Giant Crocodiles Once Preyed on Massive Mammals in South America

  • August 17, 2026
Paleontologists have uncovered the first direct physical evidence that colossal prehistoric crocodiles hunted large plant-eating mammals in what…
WWildlife
Reconstruction of Phantasmodon travouilloni in the Early Miocene rainforests of northwestern Queensland. Image credit: Peter Schouten.
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New Marsupial Lineage Emerges from Australian Fossils

  • June 15, 2026
Paleontologists have described a new genus and three new species of small, insect-eating marsupials from the Early Miocene…
SScience
Early Miocene Fossil Fills Gap in Ape Family Tree
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Early Miocene Fossil Fills Gap in Ape Family Tree

  • March 29, 2026
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of fossil ape that lived about 17-18 million years ago…
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Reconstruction of Sahelanthropus tchadensis. Image credit: University of Silesia.
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7-Million-Year-Old Sahelanthropus Fossils Bolster Case for Earliest Upright Walking

  • January 6, 2026
For more than two decades, Sahelanthropus tchadensis — a very early (6.7 to 7.2 million years old) hominin…
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