2013). Such Oligocene and Miocene catarrhines have been referred to informally as "dental apes" (e.g. Fleagle and Kay, 1987; Cartmill and Smith, 2009), or placed in taxonomic limbo using a ...

There was a great diversity of ape species in the Miocene, with dozens of species known from the fossil record across Africa, Europe, and Asia. These species varied in their anatomy and ecology ...

Two great apes — one small, one large — coexisted in what’s now Germany 11.6 million years ago, a new study says Two lines of ancient apes, including what may be the smallest great ape yet ...

Of the hundreds of millions of years of history at our disposal, the Miocene epoch stands out as the closest thing to a proxy for conditions we may expect to face within the next 50 or 100 years ...

Anthropologists agree that the family of man and the family of apes sprang from a common ancestor ... which lived in Kenya during the Lower Miocene epoch, about 20 million years ago.

Of the hundreds of millions of years of history at our disposal, the Miocene epoch stands out as the closest thing to a proxy for conditions we may expect to face within the next 50 or 100 years ...