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World’s tallest mountain reveals dangerous 10-million-year-old carnivore fossil
Researchers have examined a 10 million-year-old fossil to identify the carnivoran mammals that lived in the world’s tallest ...
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Back to the Miocene: What the climate 13.8 million years ago could tell us about our future world
Significantly, the Miocene was a nearly 18 million year epoch full of change ... with desert-specialist animals like snakes and rats soon to follow. Crichton explains that climate proxies help ...
Fossilized fish up to 16 million years old found in Australia, with last meal still intact
Paleontologists in Australia discovered a remarkably preserved fish species, revealing its last meal and offering new ...
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It includes profiles and illustrations of prehistoric mammals such as Livyatan melvillei, a large predatory whale from the Miocene epoch.
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Paleontologists Stumble Across 15-Million-Year-Old Fish Fossils That Are So Well Preserved, Their Last Meals Are Intact
But, when the fish were alive during the Miocene epoch, the region was a lush ... They were so well-preserved that the researchers could see the animals had eaten phantom midge larvae, insects ...
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Peru's 'sea monster': a colossal animal that ate sharks and dominated the sea
sharks and other species from the Miocene period. A GreenPeace article explains that whales are the largest animals that ever existed. They belong to a group of marine mammals known as cetaceans.
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Australian scientists find 15-million-year-old previously unknown fish species
A team of scientists led by Dr. Matthew McCurry from the Australian Museum and UNSW Sydney unveiled the discovery of a previously unknown species of 15-million-year-old fossilized freshwater fish ...