Widespread forests once played a significant role in warming the climate during the Middle Miocene Climate Optimum (MMCO), while open Panama and Tethys Seaways served as "shortcuts" for the Atlantic ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today’s animals — including humans — may struggle, or fail, to survive. Yet ...

The Middle Miocene witnessed significant reorganisation of the Paratethys Basin, a vast and intricately partitioned inland sea whose dynamics were shaped by a complex interplay of tectonics, ...

Longtime fossil collector Barry Norbeck donated thousands of shells and other invertebrate fossils to the Calvert Marine ...

The vegetation in northern high latitudes was likely dense forest before cooling temperatures transformed it into grassland during the Late Miocene —a shift that further accelerated global cooling.

PLATE 1. Figures 1–4: Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides (DGCUSB/BB-115,112), upper antero-lateral, Figures 5–6: Carcharhinus brevipinna (DGCUSB/BB-136), upper tooth, Figures 7–10: Carcharhinus perezi ...

Miocene carbonate systems : an introduction / M. Mutti, W. Piller, and C. Betzler -- A synthesis of Late Oligocene though Miocene deep sea temperatures as inferred from foraminiferal Mg/Ca ratios / K.

A team of researchers is working to understand the details of the climate for the eastern portion of the United States from the Miocene, which unfortunately is a blank spot on paleo-climate maps. New ...

New research using drilling samples points to a widespread Miocene-age petroleum system in the eastern Nordic Seas similar to ...