For example, during the Miocene the ancestors of Old World monkeys and apes experienced both radiations and extinctions that have been linked to climate change (Harrison 2010). In the early ...

Pliopithecines were prehistoric monkeys that spread through Eurasia during the Miocene, between 5.3 million and 23 million years ago, and some were quite small. The first tooth and the small bone ...

The paper, by D.M. Alba at Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont in Barcelona, Spain, and colleagues was titled, 'Miocene small-bodied ape from Eurasia sheds light on hominoid evolution.' ...

Hammerschmiede discoveries “highlight how much we don’t know about the evolution of the great ape and human family, and of other primates, during the Miocene in Europe,” Almécija says.