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Paleo Fact!

Agriotherium (Sour Beast) is an ursid from Miocene to Pleistocene Africa, North America and Eurasia! It was rather lightly-built for a bear, but made up for it with wide short jaws that had a rather high bite force! Based on its- (1/2)

Art by Joschua Knüppe!

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2022-10-24

Paleo Fact!

Albicetus (White Whale) is a cetacean from Miocene California! Its name is in honor of Moby Dick, the famous Sperm Whale villain from Herman Melville's 1851 novel! Much like its namesake and fellow macroraptorial sperm whales, it - (1/2)

Art by Alex Boersma!

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2022-10-15

Hi I'm an Illustrator and graphic designer with a focus on natural history. Follow for Miocene vibes✨️

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2022-10-11

Paleo Fact!

Purussaurus (Purus Lizard) is an alligatoroid from Miocene South America! Specifically a member of the Caimaninae subfamily, it might be the largest Caiman ever discovered and one of the largest alligatoroids! A recent study has downsized- (1/2)

Art by HodariNundu!

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2022-09-28

Hippopotamus Gorgops

Hippopotamus gorgops also called Gorgon-eyed river horse, is an extinct species of hippopotamus. It first appeared in Africa during the late Miocene, and eventually migrated into Europe during the early Pliocene. It became extinct prior to the Ice Age. Wit

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2022-09-17

Borissiakia huangheensis (Qiu et al., 1998), a medium-sized Schizothere from Asia of Early Miocene.

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2022-09-15

is full of amazing fossils from the including those of marine mammals.
In this scene, a bull "Metaxytherium medium" sieves the sea floor while a curious "Galeocerdo sp." investigates.

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2022-09-14

Paleo Fact!

Platybelodon (Flat Spear Tusk) is a proboscidean from Middle Miocene Africa, Eurasia, and North America! It's probably most well-known for its distinct long, shovel-like lower jaw! It was previously thought that it'd use this- (1/2)

Art by Tomasz Jedrzejowski!

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2022-08-29

Paleo Fact!

Lokotunjailurus (derived from the word for Cat in Turkana language) is a machairodont from Miocene Africa! It was a lion-sized cat with a lean and gracile body build! One noteworthy feature it had were its rather large dew claws on each- (1/2)

Art by Joschua Knüppe!

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2022-08-06

New large Miocene waterfowl Notochen bannockburnensis: https://t.co/NbM1wceRfC

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2022-07-21

Jefflodon, the true apex predator of the Miocene and is the Reason why Megalodon went extinct m.

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2022-07-21

Fuck zodiac signs, what’s your favorite prehistoric timeline

Mine is the Miocene

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2022-07-11

Shark bite marks in sperm whale Miocene fossils indicate targeting of lipid-rich foreheads https://t.co/KpuLfWQcDn

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2022-07-10

Shark bite marks in sperm whale Miocene fossils indicate targeting of lipid-rich foreheads https://t.co/7HbhXNn1V8

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2022-07-04

Rhynchotherium was a bizarre looking elephant that lived in North America during the Miocene & Pliocene.

(Credit Margret Flinsch)

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2022-06-22

Pronghorns came to Kaimere in two waves: middle and late Miocene. The first wave has the most diversity in the known world (forest and prairie taxa), but the clade of the second that includes the modern common pronghorn is much more diverse on the Eastern continent.

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2022-06-06

What is this I'm hearing about a pachycephalosaur-like giraffid from the Miocene, apparently with even more adaptations to headbutting than bighorn sheep and the like, and why haven´t I seen any pictures of it breaking a predator's ribs? :B

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2022-06-03

My first Back for a day at in Paris to 3D scan patellas of the chalicothere Anisodon from the Miocene site of Sansan. Upcoming study on the shape variation of patella in perissodactyls within the project with 🦏🐘🦕🦖

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2022-05-13