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

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 ...

However, recent fossil discoveries from the late Miocene in Europe and the eastern Mediterranean suggest a radically different narrative, one that places Europe at the center of early hominine ...

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 ...

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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 ...

2009). Adaptive radiations and extinctions -- The rise and fall of Miocene Apes Phylogenetic trees based on genetic data cannot reveal much about what might have caused adaptive radiations or ...

This site, characterized by its ancient lake deposits, has preserved remains of fauna and flora in remarkable detail, allowing scientists to reconstruct the ecosystems that thrived in Zealandia during ...