A new study, published in Historical Biology, has revealed a stunning fossil discovery in Vienna, reshaping our understanding ...

A newly discovered scorpion fossil is rewriting the story of ancient ecosystems. This rare find, named Jeholia longchengi, ...

In a paper published January 2025, Reichgelt and collaborator Christopher West compared the shapes of fossil leaves of the Miocene gathered and analyzed in many previous studies with a dataset of ...

1) A deficient fossil record. There are few Oligocene sites in Africa that represent the appropriate time period, and although there are several early Miocene sites, many of their catarrhine taxa ...

There was a great diversity of ape species in the Miocene, with dozens of species known from the fossil record across Africa, Europe, and Asia. These species varied in their anatomy and ecology ...

Robinson also expanded the collection internationally, adding Miocene faunas from Tunisia and late Pliocene fossils from South Africa. In 1972, Judith Harris joined the UCM, spearheading a revitalized ...

Miocene great apes belong to an evolutionary ... With the addition of Buronius, European fossil ape genera related to modern great apes from between roughly 16 million and 6 million years ago ...

"It is amazing to imagine these giant flying squirrels gliding over rhinos and mastodons," said paleontologist Joshua Samuels.

The collection also contains older fossil bird specimens from the Eocene, Miocene and Pleistocene. In addition to recently extinct species, like moas and elephant birds the Museum also cares for older ...

The fossil bore no similarities to other dolphin ... which means “a dolphin from Mie's Miocene epoch” (between roughly 23 million years ago and 5 million years ago). Its Japanese name is ...

Fossil corals and rock samples of Gaj Formation of Miocene age and other exposed Geological Formations in coastal areas of Karachi, Pakistan.