Researchers have identified the fossil of a rare extinct marine mammal in Japan for the first time, shedding light on the climate-driven Miocene epoch spanning roughly 23 million to 10 million years ...

A tooth of an extinct mammal, possibly dating back to around 20 million years ago, was discovered on the coast of Oregon. The tooth was spotted on March 25 by Amariah Jacobs, a preschool teacher, who ...

Some species that lived during the Oligocene and Miocene epochs grew to the size of today’s wolves and jaguars and were able to hunt animals the size of deer and horses.

“The number of distinct origins for myrmecophagy was certainly surprising, as was the discovery that their origins seem to ...

Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich land crucial to unlocking the mysteries surrounding the evolution of mammals ...

During the Miocene, the Earth’s climate rebounded from the cooling of the prior epoch, with global temperatures and mammal biodiversity markedly increasing.

The Pith:Climatic and biological evolutionary pressures on an ecosystem complement at different scales. Neither is "dominant," as that framing is not even wrong. Red Queen hypotheses maintain that ...

We here describe the first partial cranium of Hyaenodon leptorhynchus, the type species of the taxonomically diverse and widely distributed hypercarnivorous genus Hyaenodon (Hyaenodonta). The cranium ...

A group of Chico State paleontologists are studying a rich deposit of fossilized animals and plants, and are putting their discoveries on display in a museum.

Desmostylus Tooth. Jack Tamisiea, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian researchers rediscovered a tooth from an ancient hippo-like marine mammal in the National Museum of ...

A clear-cut distinction is presented between the burrowing behavior of the moles (Mammalia: Insectivora: Talpidae) and the "terrier-type" digging stroke of all other hitherto-known fossorial therian ...