miocene

The newly discovered tooth provides another reason to reconsider how the region looked in the distant past, the…

Roughly 10 to 15 million years ago, an extinct species of side-neck turtle called Chelus colombiana inhabited the…

Paleontologists have uncovered the first direct physical evidence that colossal prehistoric crocodiles hunted large plant-eating mammals in what…

Paleontologists have described a new genus and three new species of small, insect-eating marsupials from the Early Miocene…

Paleontologists have recovered the fossilized remains of three hyaenodont species, including one previously unknown to science, from Miocene…

Paleontologists have identified a new Early Miocene species of the rhinocerotid genus Epiaceratherium from the fossilized remains found…

(Julius Csotonyi via SWNS) By Talker By Stephen Beech An extinct species of rhino that lived inside the…

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