Located about 30 miles northwest of Barcelona, Can Mata landed on the primate fossil map in the early ... important transitional period from the middle to the late Miocene, when the region ...

New research reveals that shifts in plant life played a key role in speeding up major climate changes during the late Miocene, a period spanning 11.6 to 5.3 million years ago. During this time ...

The Miocene period dates from 23 to 5 million years ago. A 1,500-pound whale fossil was found along the Gaviota Coast. The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History says the fossil is unique for how ...

Maybe looking to the past can give us clues. For prehistory fans, the Miocene, with its fantastic mammal life, is an immensely attractive period. From Dryopithecus, a lineage of extinct primates ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? For 600,000 years during the tail end of the Miocene epoch, the Mediterranean was a dried-up salt plain cut off from the Atlantic Ocean.

the findings mark one of the sole specimen examples of a creature being attacked by two different predators during the Early to Middle Miocene epoch (23 million to 11.6 million years ago).

On a dry desert landscape, 115 kilometres northeast of Alice Springs, sits one of Australia's most significant fossil beds. It offers a fascinating window into the past when giant megafauna walked ...