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

骇龟生活在约700-1300万年前的中新世时期，靠近现代的南美洲。

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

它们出现在约 800 万年前即中新世末期。

And, we would expect that, back in the Miocene, there were little pods of sperm whales, and we might also suppose that if they came under attack they might try to help defend each other.

我们可以想象，在第三纪中新世，抹香鲸就这样小群活动，而且我们也能推测如果它们受到攻击它们会帮助保护彼此。

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陆接。

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活地点进行比较。

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

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

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

人类学家发现这种新发现的昼夜猫头鹰生活在约 600 万年前的中新世晚期。

But it's worth noting that the biggest Great White Sharks of today are about a meter longer than their ancestors were in the Miocene, and they grow a little faster when they're young, too, just like Megalodon did.

但值得注意的是，今天最的白鲨比它们在中新世的祖先长了约一米，它们在年轻时的成长速度也稍快一些，就像巨齿鲨一样。

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——现代白鲨的最早祖先，胡贝尔氏真鲨。

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。

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

在渐新世和中新世期间，它在地里建造了巨的螺旋形洞穴。

Many mid to late Miocene apes have been discovered throughout Europe, but fewer have been uncovered from that time period in Africa, where limited road access and dense forests cover potential study locations.

在欧洲，许多中新世中晚期猿类的化石已被发现，然而在非洲， 这一时期的化石出土较少， 这主要归因于该地区道路交通不便以及潜在研究地点被茂密森林所覆盖。

Cuvier used to urge that no monkey occurred in any tertiary stratum; but now extinct species have been discovered in India, South America and in Europe, as far back as the miocene stage.

居维叶曾经敦促任何第三层都没有猴子出现；但现在已经在印度、 南美洲和欧洲发现了灭绝的种， 早在中新世阶段。

Both of these species split from true bandicoots in the late Oligocene or early Miocene, and in 2014 a new genus was described, titled simply Crash, or Crash Bandicoot.

这两个种都是在渐新世晚期或中新世早期从真正的袋狸中分离出来的，2014 年，一个新的属被描述，简单地命名为 Crash 或 Crash Bandicoot。

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？

Then come Lyle's epochs, the Pleistocene, Miocene, and so on, which apply only to the most recent, but paleontologically busy, sixty-five million years, and finally we have a mass of finer subdivisions known as stages or ages.

然后是莱尔的时代, 更新世, 中新世等等, 这些时代只适用于最近的, 但生学上很繁忙的六千五百万年, 最后我们有一堆更精细的细分, 称为阶段或时代。

Scientists still hope to discover fossil apes that are more closely related to gorillas and chimpanzees, as well as those that survived the major climatic shift in the late Miocene.

科学家们仍希望发现与猩猩和黑猩猩关系更为密切的猿类化石，以及那些在中新世晚期气候巨变中幸存的猿类化石。