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The fossil was found on Olkhon island in Lake Baikal, on a site that preserves the northern-most early Miocene fauna found in Asia.

Back in the late Miocene epoch, there was an island--or maybe a group of islands-- in the Mediterranean Sea that was populated with fantastic giant beasts. It’s a lesson in the very strange, but ...

Previous research did unearth medium to large-size late Miocene animals in Australia, but "those deposits give almost no information about the small to medium-sized mammals that existed at the ...

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.

Barry Albright, a professor of earth science at the University of North Florida who studied the early Miocene fauna of the Gulf Coast Plain, said he was surprised by the similarity of the Central ...

After the Middle Miocene, the genetic differentiation of the population in species was influenced by land bridge connections between Hainan Island and China mainland, but this did not affect all ...

It is no surprise, therefore, that many of the herbivores that comprised the accompanying "Miocene fauna" had high-crowned teeth that allowed them to eat the foods from those savannah sources.

The undisclosed site, near the Sierra Nevada foothills, features possibly thousands of fossils, including specimens such as mastodons, giant camels and long-extinct plants.