Before humans claimed dominance as the top predator, wild cats ruled the land as the most successful and powerful ... cats of the Pleistocene era to massive lion-like creatures of the Miocene, these ...

A fossil discovery of an ancient relative of the Australian magpie which lived in New Zealand some 19 million years ago ...

Magpies may be considered Aussie immigrants, but new research reveals that their relatives lived in Aotearoa New Zealand 19 ...

Michael Boren, nominated by President Trump, is accused of threatening trail workers with a helicopter, building an airstrip without a permit and putting a cabin on federal property.

A 14.6-million-year-old Miocene fossil is encouraging a fresh look at how bees spread across isolated landmasses. It comes from a single specimen preserved in Hindon Maar mudstone in southern New ...

A new study reveals that vegetation shifts—triggered by global cooling and paleogeographic change—also accelerated major climate changes during the Late Miocene, creating a feedback loop.

Born out of erosion: The Bommayapalayam Canyon is known in local parlance as ‘Semmanodai’ (a red rivulet) in Vanur taluk of Villupuram district. The ravine, a narrow, deep valley with steep ...

They were able to draw inferences about the global climate on land, about productivity of different regions, and about characteristics of the various biomes of the Miocene compared to today.

By the middle of the Miocene, 14 million years ago, it was a relatively cool place with widespread glaciers and tundras, like what you might find in northern Canada today.

The Hammerschmiede fossil site in Bavaria, Germany is best known for exceptional remains of the ancient great ape Danuvius dating to the late Miocene Epoch, 11.6 million years ago.

The Honda Group, the geological unit hosting the fauna and flora of La Venta, outcrops in various locations along the Upper and Middle Magdalena River Valley (Guerrero, 1997). However, it is in the La ...

The earliest cetaceans are known from fossils found in Pakistan and India. The cetacean species Pakicetus lived about 50 million years ago and was a wolf-sized, four-legged land animal that lived ...