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，獬豸盘角鹿生在开阔的长有小的草原上。

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

古类学家发现这种新发现的昼夜猫头鹰生在大约 600 万前的中新世晚期。

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

它们出现在大约 800 万前即中新世末期。

And it was only one of many species of carnivorous whales in the middle Miocene.

而且，它只是中新世中期众多食肉鲸类中的一种。

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

骇龟生在大约700-1300万前的中新世时期，靠近现代的南美洲。

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

这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.

许多其他的类猿谱系在中新世期间繁衍生息。

So what caused this really bad day in the Miocene?

那么是什么导致了中新世这个非常糟糕的一天 呢？

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

体型最大的雷鸟是史氏雷啸鸟(Dromornis stirtoni)。生代为中新世晚期，约为800万前。

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。

In the Late Miocene, another adversary shows up in the fossil record -- the earliest ancestor of the Great White Shark, Carcharodon hubbelli.

在晚中新世，另一个对手出现在化石记录中——现代大白鲨的最早祖先，胡贝尔氏真鲨。

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

这意味着中新世墓地不可能是由单一物种的行为造成的。

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这些最大的犀牛的终结，只留下了它们较小的表亲。

These giant relatives of today's armadillos thrived in the Americas from the Miocene to the Pleistocene Epochs.

这些今天犰狳的巨型亲戚从中新世到更新世时期在美洲繁衍生息。

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。

And by the late Miocene, yet another streamlining trait appeared: the reduction of the " big toe" on each foot.

到了中新世晚期，又出现了另一个流线型特征：每只脚上的“大脚趾”都变小了。

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 万前在地球上漫游的中新世猿的时间胶囊。

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。

Pimiento and her team used a climate forecasting model to recreate ocean temperatures during the Pliocene and Miocene, and compared those temperatures to where Megalodon had lived.

皮米恩托和她的团队使用一个气候预测模型来重现上新世和中新世期间的海洋温度，并将这些温度与巨齿鲨的生地点进行比较。

So when Barbour and other paleontologists began to explore the area, thousands of millennia later, they found themselves surrounded by a Miocene ghost town.

因此，当巴伯和其他古生物学家开始探索该地区时，数千后，他们发现自己被一个中新世的鬼城所包围。