And by the middle Miocene they found themselves moving into North America, and headed to South America from there. As they expanded across the world, these megaherbivores diversified dramatically.

Limitations on the Miocene as a proxy for our future world. Sadly, the taxodonts will not grace our future world. The long-armed, horsey Chalicotheriidae, reminiscent of Bojack Horseman, ...

Elephant ancestors´ teeth evolved in response to long term changes in diet ... This image depicts a landscape in Kenya in the Middle Miocene (about 15 million years ago), where a ...

Elephant ancestors´ teeth evolved in response to long term changes in diet and climate in Africa. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 08 ...

To him, the jawbone looked as if it belonged to a Miocene mastodon, the elephant cousin that migrated to America from Asia during the golden age of mammals, some 12 million years ago.

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.

An exceptionally well-preserved monodominant fossil forest of Wataria from the lower Miocene of Japan. Scientific Reports , 2023; 13 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-37211-z Cite This Page : ...

“During the Miocene baleen whales were small, but sperm whales would have constituted a perfect fat repository due to their greatly enlarged and lipid-rich nasal organs,” said Benites-Palomino.

A mandible belonging to a gomphothere, an extinct elephant species from the Miocene epoch, discovered at a fossil-rich site in the Mokelumne River watershed, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023.