And they are known from the late Miocene, about eight million years ago.

它们出现在大约 800 万年前即中新世末期。

Stupendemys lived about 7-13 million years ago during the Miocene Epoch near modern South America.

骇龟生活在大约700-1300万年前的中新世时期，靠近现代的南美洲。

Discokeryx lived in open grasslands with small groups of trees during a time known as the Miocene period.

在第三纪中新世时期，獬豸盘角鹿生活在开阔的长有树木的草原上。

Paleoanthropologists found the newly identified diurnal owl lived around 6 million years ago in the late Miocene period.

古人类学家发现种新发现的昼夜猫头鹰生活在大约 600 万年前的中新世晚期。

This major climatic shift likely caused the extinction of many Miocene ape lineages.

种重大的气候变化可能导致许多中新世猿类谱系灭绝。

Many other lineages of apes thrived during the Miocene.

许多其他的类人猿谱系在中新世期间繁衍生息。

So what caused this really bad day in the Miocene?

那导致了中新世个非常糟糕的一天 呢？

Now, being so big probably helped them deal with large Miocene predators, like saber-toothed barbourofelids.

现在， 体型如此之大可能有助于它们对付大型中新世食肉动物，例如剑齿虎科动物。

The largest are the thunderbirds called Dromornis stirtoni. And they are known from the late Miocene, about eight million years ago.

体型最大的雷鸟史氏雷啸鸟(Dromornis stirtoni)。生活年代为中新世晚期，约为800万年前。

So, as they became increasingly adapted to their grassy new environment, equines thrived throughout the Miocene.

因此， 随着它们越来越适应新的草地环境，马科动物在整个中新世蓬勃发展。

For the most part, the rest of the Miocene continued the trends that began in the Oligocene.

在大多数情况下，中新世的其余部分 延续了渐新世开始的趋势。

This means the Miocene graveyard couldn't have been caused by the behavior of a single species.

意味着中新世墓地不可能由单一物种的行为造成的。

But these humid, heavily forested ecosystems gradually diminished through the Miocene and into the Pliocene epoch as Australia became drier over time.

但随着澳大利亚随着时间的推移变得更加干燥，些潮湿、森林茂密的生态系统在中新世和上新世逐渐消失。

The climate cooled repeatedly into and throughout the Miocene and Pliocene Epochs, driving other periods of selection for weasel-like body plans.

气候在中新世和上新世期间反复变冷，推动了其他选择黄鼠狼般身体计划的时期。

During the Oligocene and Miocene Epochs, it made huge, spiraled dens in the earth.

在渐新世和中新世时期，它在地球上形成了巨大的螺旋状洞穴。

Some paleontologists have interpreted living African apes as time capsules of Miocene apes that roamed the earth from five to 23 million years ago.

一些古生物学家将现存的非洲猿解释为 5 到 2300 万年前在地球上漫游的中新世猿的时间胶囊。

And it only approached the Asian Sunda continental shelf in the west around 20 to 25 million years ago in the late Oligocene or early Miocene epoch.

而且，它只有在大约 2,000 万到 2,500 万年前的渐新世晚期或中新世早期和在西面的亚洲巽他古大陆接壤。

The start of the Miocene marked the end of these largest of the rhinos, with only their smaller cousins left behind.

中新世的开始标志着些最大的犀牛的终结，只留下了它们较的表亲。

Well, back in the Miocene, Cerro Bellena was a beach, a tidal flat where dead and dying animals washed ashore over time.

好吧，回到中新世， Cerro Bellena 一个海滩，一个潮滩，随着时间的推移， 死亡和垂死的动物被冲上岸。

They unearthed a fossilized braincase and  some vertebrae from a weird mammal dating back to about 17 million years  ago, to the early Miocene epoch.

他们出土了一个化石脑壳和一些来自一种奇怪哺乳动物的椎骨，其历史可以追溯到大约 1700 万年前的中新世早期。