Chris Driesbach, left, and a volunteer stand over a whale fossil found along the Gaviota Coast. Driesbach, a geologist and ...

Squat rhinos lived in North America about 12 million years ago, congregating in huge, water-bound herds much like modern hippos.

However, recent fossil discoveries from the late Miocene in Europe and the eastern Mediterranean suggest a radically different narrative, one that places Europe at the center of early hominine ...

A new study reveals that a prehistoric sea cow was preyed upon by two different carnivores: a crocodile and a shark.

The research suggests that dirt ants once inhabited the Caribbean islands before vanishing during the Miocene epoch.

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.

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 ...

In April, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History announced that it had successfully excavated the fossilized remains of a mid-Miocene whale and had relocated the remains to the museum for ...

In April, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History announced that it had successfully excavated the fossilized remains of a mid-Miocene whale and had relocated the remains to the museum for ...