The Miocene epoch (∼23 to 5 million years ago) witnessed a complex interplay between prolonged warmth, transient warming events and the gradual expansion of polar ice. Initial warmth peaked during the ...

Many studies of Earth’s climate history have documented a strong correlation between global climate and atmospheric carbon dioxide: during warm periods, high concentrations persist, and colder times ...

Researchers surveyed sediment samples from the northern Tibetan Plateau's Qaidam Basin and constructed paleoclimate cycle records from the late Miocene epoch of Earth's history, which lasted from ...

Timeline of atmospheric CO₂ evolution, faunal turnover, and topographic uplift during the Miocene, providing a contextual framework for interpreting ecological and climate model results. (A) ...

An exquisitely preserved fossil forest from Japan provides missing links and helps reconstruct a whole Eurasia plant from the late Miocene epoch. An exquisitely preserved fossil forest from Japan ...

The Miocene epoch witnessed a remarkable diversification of carnivorous mammals, spanning basal caniforms and feliforms through to apex predators such as saber-toothed cats and bone-cracking hyaenids.

Buried in Australia's so-called dead heart, a trove of exceptional fossils, including those of trapdoor spiders, giant ...

Greg Francek thought he was looking at a piece of petrified wood. But the fossil wasn’t a singular find — it was a key to a 10.8-mile fossil discovery that is being called one of California’s greatest ...

CHICO — A remarkably rich trove of fossilized animal and plant remains is undergoing evaluation and identification by a crew of Chico State paleontologists. The site, whose specific location the ...