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…

A nearly complete skull unearthed decades ago in Arizona has given paleontologists their clearest look yet at Adelphailurus…

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 genus and species of fossil ape that lived about 17-18 million years ago…

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

Nowadays, anacondas are usually four to five meters long, but they can reach seven meters. Credit: Andres Alfonso-Rojas…

Anacondas are among the largest living snakes in the world. They are usually 4 to 5 m long…

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

Paleontologists have identified a new species of rodent in Acarechimys, an extinct genus with a widespread South American…

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