And they aren’t North American animals, either. But millions of years ago, rhinos were. In the Middle Miocene, Teleoceras major rhinos lived across Nebraska and across much of North America, too. “I ...

Thought today's turtles could get pretty big? Think again; this giant turtle was large enough to eat an entire human.

Epicyon haydeni, or Hayden’s bone-crushing dog, roamed North America between 12 and 6 million years ago during the middle to late Miocene epoch. Its fossils have been discovered in at least 12 ...

These natural archives offer direct evidence of periodic episodes of increased rainfall and vegetation during the late Miocene, early Pliocene, and middle Pleistocene epochs. During these windows ...

I’ve spent so much unplanned time out of town in Bend, Oregon, that my legs have fallen into sad shape, some disrepair and in need of moderate day hikes ...

From the adorable but deadly pine marten to the massive sperm whale, get to know some of the amazing animals that call National Parks home.

Late Miocene magnetostratigraphy ... Response of the African monsoon to orbital forcing and ocean feedbacks in the middle Holocene. Science 278, 440-444 (1997). Liu, Z. Y., Wang, Y., ...

In both regions, major radiations occurred during the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum, including the radiation of the Barbatula lineage in the Northern Clade, of the Indochinese Clade, the Sundaic ...

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

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 ...