and the beginning of the Miocene epoch (23.03 million to 5.3 million years ago). "Penguins evolved rapidly from the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene and Pakudyptes is an important fossil from this ...

We begin this discussion of our species' evolution in Africa, near the end of the geological time period known as the Miocene, just before our lineage diverged from that of chimpanzees and bonobos.

The mountains were just beginning to form at the time ... waters of the Pacific region and around South America during the Miocene, which was a geologic period that lasted from roughly 23 million ...