For many New Zealanders, the Australian magpie is a familiar, if sometimes vexing, sight. Introduced from Australia in the ...

Back to the Miocene: What the climate 13.8 million years ago could tell us about our future world ... animals or other kingdoms of life to reconstruct what it would’ve been like back then.

A new parrot from the Miocene of Germany, with comments on the variation of hypotarsus morphology in some Psittaciformes, Belgian Journal of Zoology, 134(1):47-54 doi:10.1.1.504.1714 ...

The Shihuiba locality (Lufengpithecus site) at Lufeng, Yunnan is one of the most important Miocene mammal fauna sites in China. The Hipparion (three-toed horse) fossils collected from this ...

New floridatragulines (Mammalia, Camelidae) from the early Miocene Las Cascadas Formation, Panama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology , 2012; 32 (2): 456 DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2012.635736 Cite ...

Unlike other Miocene fossil sites in Australia that are peppered with the bones of large vertebrates, McGraths Flat contains remnants of flora and soft-bodied fauna, which are typically more ...

This suggests that the foods animals were eating in the late Miocene were perhaps tougher, more drought-resistant plants, and there was more abrasive dust in the environment.

Back when W. tomnpatrichorum dwelledin the forests of northwest Australia during the late Miocene period, which lasted from about 12 million to 5 million years ago, Australia was beginning to dry out.