For many New Zealanders, the Australian magpie is a familiar, if sometimes vexing, sight. Introduced from Australia in the ...

Around the middle of the epoch, we reached what is called the Miocene Climate Optimum (MCO), a roughly two million year-long greenhouse period when the world experienced its last period of ...

Antarctic Drilling Provides Climate Clues From Middle Miocene. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 14, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 11 / 071128074937.htm ...

The Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum (16 to 14 million years ago), considered generally to be the warmest period in Earth's history within the past 25 million years, saw a major shift in climate ...

Miocene CO 2 emissions were slow enough to avoid significant ocean acidification, ... [CO 2] shows 100 to 200ppm increase in the middle Miocene. We’ve already bumped it up 127 since preindustrial.

BY THE END of the Middle Miocene, roughly 13 million years ago, we have evidence for great apes in Eurasia, notably Lartet's fossil great ape, Dryopithecus, in Europe and Sivapithecus in Asia.

The La Venta Konzentrat-Lagerstätte: a Neotropical moist forest biome of the Middle Miocene stands out as a unique window into Earth's past to study Neotropics terrestrial ecosystems during the ...

During the middle Miocene, around 15 million years ago, the climate of Madrid was warmer than it is today while the landscape was dominated by extensive wooded meadows with forested patches where ...