Tag: Miocene
A Miocene site filled with faecal pellets
In the Miocene of Maryland, mysterious organisms left traces of their meal behind. They filled a fish skull, a gastropod shell and the insides of barnacles with it. You will…
When sharks devoured each other
The identity, as well as the ecology of extinct sharks, is mainly deduced from the shape of their teeth present in the fossil record. If traces of predation by these…
The Antarctic ice sheet could collapse much sooner than previously thought
Hoping to better understand what lies in store for Antarctica in the years to come, researchers have once again questioned the past. Their goal: to reveal how ice reacted to…