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，靠近现代的南美洲。

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

它们出现在大约 800 万年前即中新末。

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

而且，它只是中新中众多食肉鲸类中的一。

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

在第三纪中新，獬豸盘角鹿生活在开阔的长有小片树木的草原上。

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

古人类家发现这新发现的昼夜猫头鹰生活在大约 600 万年前的中新晚。

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)。生活年代为中新晚，约为800万年前。

Many other lineages of apes thrived during the Miocene.

许多其他的类人猿谱系在中新间繁衍生息。

So what caused this really bad day in the Miocene?

那么是什么导致了中新这个非常糟糕的一天 ？

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

这重大的气候变化可能导致许多中新猿类谱系灭绝。

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

在渐新和中新，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，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。

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

中新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到更新在美洲繁衍生息。

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

到了中新晚，又出现了另一个流线型特征：每只脚上的“大脚趾”都变小了。

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

这意味着中新墓地不可能是由单一物的行为造成的。

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 万年前的渐新晚或中新早和在西面的亚洲巽他古大陆接壤。

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和中新间的海洋温度，并将这些温度与巨齿鲨的生活地点进行比较。

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猿的间胶囊。

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食肉动物，例如剑齿虎动物。

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， Cerro Bellena 是一个海滩，一个潮滩，随着间的推移， 死亡和垂死的动物被冲上岸。