Major climatic changes occurred during the Miocene. The world became a cooler, drier place. As a result, forests shrunk and grasslands spread. The animals of the Miocene adapted to this changing world. This epoch is characterized by a major „modernization“ of many animals–they began to resemble th
Fossil Horses The Miocene Epoch 24 Million – 5.3 Million Years Ago Fossil Horses
Stratigraphy is the scientific study of geological history. It originated about 200 years ago with the work of an English engineer named William Smith, who saw the same layers of fossil-bearing rock as he surveyed different parts of England. This observation led Smith to draft maps of those layer
The first vertebrates appeared around 500 million years ago, and fish evolved from
Neohipparion was the most successful hipparion horse in terms of number of species in the fossil record. Hipparion horses have been found in North America, Europe, and Asia. Where & When? Neohipparion fossils are found in sediments dating from the mid-Miocene through early Pliocene of North
Species in this genus lived from 16-5 million years ago.
The Museum has come a long way in the past 100 years. Fieldwork and collecting remain as important today as in the past, while new technologies allow researchers to explore the natural world in ways past scientists could not imagine. Big data and collaborations with partners near and far allow a new
fossil is the largest freshwater turtle species found from the Paleocene (66–56 million
colliding slowly with the South American continent through tectonic plate movement over millions
(foreground) collect fossils from the Miocene-age Cucaracha Formation (about 17 million
from the Florida Museum of Natural History
curiosity correspondent, Emily Graslie has plunged elbow-deep into wolf guts, dug up 52-million-year-old
The great white shark is one of the largest living predatory animals and a magnet for media sensationalism, yet its evolutionary history is as misunderstood as its role as a menace. Originally classified as a direct relative of megatooth sharks, the white shark’s evolutionary history has been
the only intact partial skull ever found of a white shark that lived about 4.5 million
Evolutionary arms races between marine animals overhauled ocean ecosystems on scales similar to the mass extinctions triggered by global disasters, a new study shows. Scientists at Umeå University in Sweden and the Florida Museum of Natural History used paleontological databases to build a multil
extinct, ammonites were a group of marine mollusks that first appeared about 409 million
from the Florida Museum of Natural History
year,â€� according to the University… Read More Frogs date back more than 150 million
When it comes to camels, it’s difficult not to think of the Old World depicted through Arabian Nights – Bedouin travelers crossing vast, radiant deserts by day, through dark, star-spotted Arabian nights. But according to the fossil record, the ancestors of modern camels were creatures of the New Wor
Great Plains, the earliest-known camels dwelled in the American savannah about 35 million
