Scientists discovered a 15-million-year-old fish fossil, Ferruaspis brocksi. It has preserved stomach contents and visible ...
Maybe looking to the past can give us clues. For prehistory fans, the Miocene, with its fantastic mammal life, is an immensely attractive period. From Dryopithecus, a lineage of extinct primates ...
In an Australian first, researchers have described a new species of 15-million-year-old fossilized freshwater fish, ...
Discovered in Australia, the fossils represent a new species that lived during the Miocene epoch and highlight how iron-rich ...
A team of scientists led by Australian Museum and UNSW Sydney palaeontologist, Dr Matthew McCurry, have described a new ...
Among primates, this is seen only in bipedal hominins. Miocene: Period in the geologic time scale that extends from 23 to 5.3 million years ago. Obturator externus groove: A shallow groove on the ...
“The discovery of the 15 million-year-old freshwater fish fossil offers us an unprecedented opportunity to understand ...
We begin this discussion of our species' evolution in Africa, near the end of the geological time period known as the Miocene, just before our lineage diverged from that of chimpanzees and bonobos.
This site, characterized by its ancient lake deposits, has preserved remains of fauna and flora in remarkable detail, allowing scientists to reconstruct the ecosystems that thrived in Zealandia during ...