A new study, published in Historical Biology, has revealed a stunning fossil discovery in Vienna, reshaping our understanding ...

Evidence that Danuvius and Buronius survived on different resources in the same place “shows that ecosystems in the Miocene of Europe enabled, perhaps even forced, the evolution of diverse ape ...

In addition, the Miocene climatic optimum reached its peak at this time. Due to global warming, the European reef belt extended northwards and now reached as far as Eisenstadt. With the reefs also ...

Fifty million years ago, in fact, palm trees grew in Antarctica, as palm fossils attest, and in the more recent but still mostly toasty Miocene, they were still found in North America, Europe ...

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

There was a great diversity of ape species in the Miocene, with dozens of species known from the fossil record across Africa, Europe, and Asia. These species varied in their anatomy and ecology ...

The findings, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics ( "The Solar System’s Passage through the Radcliffe Wave during the ...