What he did not know was that his dream had already come true at the end of the Miocene era, 5.5 million years ago, as a simple result of natural forces. Since the 1970s, several generations of ...

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.

Researchers Find That a Mysterious Event Almost Wiped Out World's Entire Shark Population Analysis of certain shark fossils from the South and North Pacific has made researchers conclude that the ...

Sir Ray Lankester pointed out many years ago 1 that the bones and teeth of land mammals found in the Suffolk Bone Bed are of different ages—some being of a Miocene antiquity, while others are to ...