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

在第三纪中时期，獬豸盘角鹿生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.

古人类学种的昼夜猫头鹰生在大约 600 万年前的中晚期。

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

它们出在大约 800 万年前即中末期。

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

而且，它只是中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700-1300万年前的中时期，靠近代的南美洲。

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)。生年代为中晚期，约为800万年前。

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

在渐和中时期，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，另一个对手出在化石记录中——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.

意味着中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.

中的开始标志着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.

些今天犰狳的巨型亲戚从中到更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 万年前的渐晚期或中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.

到了中晚期，又出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.

一些古生物学将存的非洲猿解释为 5 到 2300 万年前在地球上漫游的中猿的时间胶囊。

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

在， 体型如此之大可能有助于它们对付大型中食肉动物，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上和中期间的海洋温度，并将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开始探索该地区时，数千年后，他们自己被一个中的鬼城所包围。