A 19-million-year-old currawong fossil found in New Zealand sheds light on the ancient birdlife that once thrived in the ...

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

Buried in Australia's so-called dead heart, a trove of exceptional fossils, including those of trapdoor spiders, giant cicadas, tiny fish and a feather from an ancient bird, reveal a unique snapshot ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

Sharks are one of the oldest species of animals still alive today. While they may not be the massive megalodons that lived ...

Around 14 million to 16 million years ago, however, a time of global warming called the Mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum pushed sloths to become smaller, which is a known way for animals to respond to ...

“In many respects the fauna is typical of an island biota, reflective of lineages dispersing to the landmass at various times since its breakup from Gondwana c. 80 million years ago and then ...

A new study reveals that vegetation shifts—triggered by global cooling and paleogeographic change—also accelerated major climate changes during the Late Miocene, creating a feedback loop.

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.

Such clues open new doors for comparing host choices in early Miocene insects with those of living species in the same family. Whitefly species outside New Zealand. Researchers in other parts of the ...

And the plants and animals that lived there, now isolated from their neighbors, began to diversify. ... The late Miocene saw the birth of the Sahara Desert in Africa, for example.