Scientists Uncover Fossil of a Terror Bird That Could Be the Largest Ever Known, Stood Over 8 Feet Tall Scientists have found ...

Among primates, this is seen only in bipedal hominins. Miocene: Period in the geologic time scale that extends from 23 to 5.3 million years ago. Obturator externus groove: A shallow groove on the ...

The discovery was made by Wolfgang Höpfner, the twin brother of Gerhard Höpfner, who led the excavation team for several ...

We begin this discussion of our species' evolution in Africa, near the end of the geological time period known as the Miocene, just before our lineage diverged from that of chimpanzees and bonobos.

In a paper published in SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences, the formation and evolution of the biota in Hainan Island were revealed via research on their genomes, phylogeny, and molecular biogeography. It ...

Theirs was the first study to compare Millennium Man’s physiology not only to humans and living apes, but also fossil apes that lived in the Miocene period some 23 to 5.3 million years ago.

Miocene great apes belong to an evolutionary ... That’s more than twice as many as have been found in Africa dating to the same period. But a total of only three Buronius fossils leaves room ...

Speaking on the sidelines of a symposium at the Philippine presidential palace where the find was announced, Piccini said it was a rare discovery in the region from the Miocene era — 20 million ...