In a study published in Science, an international research team from the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center ...

Toward a continental Asian Neogene biostratigraphic and geochronological framework / Xiaoming Wang, Lawrence J. Flynn, and Mikael Fortelius -- Neogene land mammal stages/ages of China : toward the ...

A jaw bone discovered in Egypt is changing the way scientists think about the origins of the ape family tree. The specimen, ...

v.1. pt.1. A new whalebone whale from the Miocene Calvert formation -- v.1.pt.2. The Miocene Calvert sperm whale Orycterocetus -- v.2.pt.3. New species of extinct Miocene Sirenia -- v.2.pt.4. A new ...

"Prehistoric World" is a new book by Aaron Woodruff, the museum's collection manager for vertebrate paleontology. It includes profiles and illustrations of prehistoric mammals such as Livyatan ...

Learn how an Early Miocene ape fossil from Egypt is changing theories about ape evolution and the origins of modern apes.

The fossil find suggests that the closest ancestors to modern apes may have emerged in northern Africa rather than what was ...

Scientists have uncovered a new species of rhinoceros in the Canadian High Arctic, revealing that rhinos once lived far ...

The specific species hypothesized was Brachypotherium brachypus, which lived in western Eurasia during the Miocene epoch. A giant marsupial (diprotodontid). These were large, herbivorous marsupials, ...

In the Siwaliks in situ evolution appears to occur in only a few lineages and is therefore thought to be unimportant in most groups. Immigration and extinction events tend to be correlated and ...