The vegetation in northern high latitudes was likely dense forest before cooling temperatures transformed it into grassland during the Late Miocene —a shift that further accelerated global cooling.

The giant anaconda, one of the largest snakes in the world, has a fascinating history that dates back over 12 million years. Recent fossil evidence from Venezuela reveals that these magnificent ...

Is it possible for you to survive in the Late Miocene Epoch? In the Late Miocene Epoch, tectonic forces uplifted the Earth's crust, blocking off the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. A ...

This one-ton turtle once ruled South America’s rivers — until a changing planet proved too much for even the largest freshwater giant.

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today’s animals — including humans — may struggle, or fail, to survive. Yet ...

Toward a continental Asian Neogene biostratigraphic and geochronological framework / Xiaoming Wang, Lawrence J. Flynn, and Mikael Fortelius -- Neogene land mammal stages/ages of China : toward the ...