image: A well-preserved fossilized forest from the late Miocene epoch was found in Japan, near the Ota bridge on the Kiso river. (Photo: Toshihiro Yamada) view more . Credit: Toshihiro Yamada.

8-million-year-old tusks from a Miocene mastodon. Photo: Jason Halley (California State University, Chico) It’s hard to say what caused the demise of the animals found there, whether one fate ...

In a groundbreaking excavation led by Dr. Uwe Kaulfuss from the University of Göttingen, Germany, researchers uncovered exquisitely preserved whitefly fossils in Miocene-age sediments near Dunedin, ...

The bear lived during the Miocene epoch, which ended about 5.3 million years ago, ... A. nikolovi’s teeth probably served as a good defense against other animals in the swampy Miocene forest.

The scientists’ discoveries, published Friday in the journal Science Advances, help reconstruct Australia’s Miocene rainforest in extensive detail, and the site “opens a whole new area of ...

Experts have made an "extraordinary" discovery of a tree which is still intact after being petrified by a volcanic eruption 20 million years ago in Lesbos, Greece.

Humans Family tree of extinct apes reveals our early evolutionary history. A new family tree of apes that lived in the Miocene between 23 and 5.3 million years ago reveals which are our close ...