Some periods in Earth's history are so different from our own that they may as well belong to another planet. Many people are ...

The eastern tropical Pacific Ocean is known for its large low-oxygen zones that are increasing in size, putting marine life at risk. New research shows that 15 million years ago, the opposite was true ...

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 ...

Ichnofossils are important in paleoecological studies, interpreted as fossilized behaviors. Vertebrate footprints, a type of ichnofossils, can reveal the movements of trackmakers. By examining fossil ...

This documentary explores the extraordinary story of Leviathan melvillei, one of the most powerful predators ever to inhabit Earth's oceans. Living between roughly 10 and 5 million years ago during ...

The area and elevation of the Tibetan Plateau over time has directly affected Asia’s topography, the characteristics of the Asian monsoon and modified global climate, but in ways that are poorly ...

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.

Miocene carbonate systems : an introduction / M. Mutti, W. Piller, and C. Betzler -- A synthesis of Late Oligocene though Miocene deep sea temperatures as inferred from foraminiferal Mg/Ca ratios / K.

Odisha Miocene fossils in Mayurbhanj reveal a 15 million year old marine ecosystem near Baripada, boosting calls for geo ...

An international research group led by Prof. WANG Bo and Prof. SHI Gongle from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) collected approximately 25 ...

Learn how Miocene fossils from the Mojave Desert reveal that pronghorn running adaptations developed long before high-speed cheetahs appeared in North America. The American pronghorn can outrun every ...

Lions may get all the good press about being "king of the jungle," but the modern animal that has no predators in the wild, except for man, is the rhinoceros and that probably was the case as ...