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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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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 ...
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.
‘A 15 million-year-old fish shows Australia was once a rainforest — which became arid’
Speaking from Sydney to Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke, McCurry explains his new find which shows climate — and change: Can ...
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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 ...