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小片树木的草原上。

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?

那么是什么导致了中新世这个非常糟糕的一天 呢？

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。

But the larger Miohippus survived and radiated into many different species that flourished in the following epoch, the Miocene.

但体型较大的 Miohippus 幸存下来并辐射成许多不同的物种，这些物种在接下来的中新世时期蓬勃发展。

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。

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。

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。

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 是一个海滩，一个潮滩，随着时间的推移， 死亡和垂死的动物被冲上岸。

Only three species of these skin-shelled turtles are found in the Oligocene Epoch, two in the Miocene, and just one in the Pliocene.

在渐新世只发现了三种这种皮壳龟，在中新世发现了两种， 在上新世发现了一种。

It's known today as Epicyon, and it stalked North America from sixteen million to seven million years ago, during the Miocene epoch.

它今天被称为 Epicyon，它在 1600 万到 700 万年前的中新世时期一直在北美徘徊。

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，这些潮湿、森林茂密的生态系统在中新世和上新世逐渐消失。

As the Miocene epoch was drawing to a close, bone-crushing dogs roamed North America from Maryland to California and from Montana to Mexico.

随着中新世时代接近尾声，碎骨犬在北美洲从马里兰州到加利福尼亚州， 从蒙大拿州到墨西哥漫游。

But there's one more possible benefit to living in a spiral burrow, one that was particularly important in the Miocene: air conditioning.

但是，住在螺旋形洞穴中还有一个可能的好处，这在中新世尤为重要：空调。

While that study of sediment cores only looked at this cycle over the last 100,000 years, it was probably happening back in the Miocene Epoch, too.

虽然这项对沉积岩心的研究只关注了过去 10 万年的这个循环，但它很可能也发生在中新世时期。

Now this coincided with other big environmental changes in the Miocene Epoch, like global drops in sea level and temperature possibly caused by changes in Earth's orbit.

现在， 这与中新世时期的其他重大环境变化同时发生，例如地球轨道变化可能引起的全球海平面和温度下降。

You're searching for fossils in the Harrison Formation -- a big swath of siltstone, sandstone, and volcanic ash dating back to the Miocene Epoch some 22 million years ago.

您正在哈里森组中寻找化石——一大片粉砂岩、砂岩和火山灰，可追溯到大约 2200 万年前的中新世时期。