Merry Christmas fellow hunters. Tooth in matrix found on the James near Richmond. Clam fossil attached. Approx 5-20 million years old. Miocene Epoch.
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Livyatan melvillei, one of the most fearsome apex predators of the Miocene oceans. This raptorial sperm whale may have competed with Megalodon.
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The Ashfall Fossil Beds in Nebraska has thousands of stunningly preserved Miocene animals from a previous Yellowstone hotspot eruption.
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π₯ Fossilized Otodus Megalodon Shark Tooth (Miocene - Jasper County, SC)
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Recently a Miocene aged lagerstΓ€tte was found in Australia. This spider fossil is just one of many well preserved fossils from the site
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It was a great year in the central Virginia Miocene! Can't wait to see what 2022 uncovers. Good luck to all the hunters this year! Happy New Year!
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π₯ Comparison of modern day Great White tooth vs Miocene Great White tooth vs Megalodon tooth in ascending order
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︎ Nov 29 2021
How the Elephant Got Its Trunk. Rimasuchus bites the trunk of Mammutid Zygolophodon. Early Miocene Egypt.
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It was a great year in the central Virginia Miocene! Can't wait to see what 2022 uncovers. Good luck to all the hunters this year! Happy New Year!
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Megalodon tooth vs Miocene Great White and modern day Great White Shark tooth
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Fossilized Otodus Megalodon Shark Tooth (Miocene - Jasper County, SC)
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the largest crocodile ever existed. The Late Miocene period - lasted from 11.63 Ma (million years ago) to 5.333 Ma. They said it could exert a pressure up to 11.5 tonnes. That is 20 times the strength of a white sharkβs bite.
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Fossilized Otodus Megalodon Tooth (Miocene - Jasper County, SC)
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︎ Jan 05 2022
Granastrapotherium snorki, a long-tusked, long-trunked astrapotheriid belonging to the Middle Miocene-aged La Venta fauna of Colombia. Art by Roman Uchytel.
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︎ Dec 27 2021
Fossils of the giant aquatic sloth, Thalassocnus natans (specimen MNHN.F.SAS734), from the Late Miocene coast of Peru.
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︎ Dec 30 2021
A beached Megalodon (Otodus megalodon) soon attracts a large flock of birds including some Miocene Peruvian Condors (Perugyps diazi). Credit goes to Gabriel Ugueto.
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Somewhere during the Middle Miocene in northern South America. A female Hilarcotherium lies dead after succumbing to illness. The smell has attracted a group of Barinasuchus who have no issue with sharing the massive carcass.
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A beached Megalodon (Otodus megalodon) soon attracts a large flock of birds including some Miocene Peruvian Condors (Perugyps diazi). Credit goes to Gabriel Ugueto.
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︎ Dec 15 2021
It was a great year in the central Virginia Miocene! Can't wait to see what 2022 uncovers. Good luck to all the hunters this year! Happy New Year!
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︎ Jan 03 2022
A size comparison of Caiman wannlangstoni from the Miocene of northwestern South America and Steve Irwin by Armin Reindl.
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︎ Dec 27 2021
It was a great year in the central Virginia Miocene! Can't wait to see what 2022 uncovers. Good luck to all the hunters this year! Happy New Year!
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Cetotherium riabinini by Jaime Bran on Twitter. A tiny baleen whale that formerly inhabited the now inland Paratethys sea during the Miocene.
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︎ Nov 20 2021
Elasmotherium is an extinct genus of large rhinoceros endemic to Eurasia during Late Miocene through Pleistocene, existing at least as late as 39000 years ago in Late Pleistocene.
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︎ Oct 02 2021
Megalodon jaws compared with a great white shark with Dr. Jeremiah Clifford, who specializes in fossil reconstruction, for size comparison - Megalodon was the largest shark to ever live and was from the Miocene era - thankfully millions of years ago
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︎ Dec 08 2021
A perfectly preserved skull of Olsenβs Alligator (Alligator olseni) from the early Miocene of Florida.
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︎ Jan 06 2022
Merry Christmas fellow hunters. Tooth in matrix found on the James near Richmond. Clam fossil attached. Approx 5-20 million years old. Miocene Epoch.
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︎ Dec 26 2021
Danomuraβs Sperm Whale (Kogia danomurai) from the Late Miocene of Peru by Jaime Bran on Twitter.
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The new study examined the status of Antarctic ice sheets during the Early Miocene, around 18-16 million years ago, which experienced both warm and cold periods. During warmer periods, sea level rose by up to 60 metres β the equivalent of melting all the ice currently on the Antarctic continent.
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Microberardius africanus, a close Miocene relative of todayβs Giant beaked Whales (genus Berardius). By Jaime Bran.
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︎ Jan 15 2022
Comparison of modern day Great White tooth vs Miocene Great White tooth vs Megalodon tooth in ascending order
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︎ Nov 29 2021
Megalodon jaws compared with a great white shark with Dr. Jeremiah Clifford, who specializes in fossil reconstruction, for size comparison - Megalodon was the largest shark to ever live and was from the Miocene era - thankfully millions of years ago
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︎ Dec 08 2021
One of the largest terrestrial predator after the dinosaurs went extinct was a 6m long crocodyliform, Barinasuchus arveloi, from the Miocene of South America.
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An adult Devincenzia brings a Cardiotherium to its chicks in Miocene South America. Art by Gabriel Ugueto.
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︎ Sep 10 2021
Comparison of modern day Great White tooth vs Miocene Great White tooth vs Megalodon tooth in ascending order
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︎ Nov 29 2021
π₯ Comparison of modern day Great White tooth vs Miocene Great White tooth vs Megalodon tooth in ascending order
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︎ Nov 29 2021
Coral ID needed. Richmond VA area. Miocene.
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︎ Jan 13 2022
A young Megalodon (Otodus megalodon) joins forces with a Tiger Shark (Galeocerdo cuvier), to clean up a rotting carcass of an Atlantic Goliath Grouper (Epinephelus itajara) in the Late Miocene off the coast of Venezuela.
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Skull of Daeodon shoshonensis, a giant omnivores relative of whales and hippo from the Miocene of North America.
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︎ Oct 03 2021
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Wetlands of Agate, Miocene Nebraska U.S. by Olmagon. The cranes are Balearica exigua, the ducks are Dendrochen sp., the gator is Alligator mcgrewi, the hippo like mammals are Arretotherium fricki, and the Giant otter like mammal is Potamotherium valletoni.
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︎ Dec 22 2021
The lower jaw of Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, a hyenadont from the Miocene of Africa, compared to the skull of a lion.
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︎ Oct 23 2021
Tyto gigantea was a large species of owl that lived during the Miocene. It had a wingspan of 2 meters and was closely related to todayβs barn owl.
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︎ Oct 15 2021
Andalgalornis, the ripper of Miocene Argentina
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︎ Oct 08 2021
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