A new book highlights the beautiful work of Jay Matternes, an accomplished artist who drew everything from mammoths to early ...

They then vanished from the country’s fossil record during the Late Miocene (around 9 million years ago) and then reappeared in the Pliocene and Pleistocene eras (5.3 and 2.6 million years ago). The ...

Originating from the North Pacific Ocean, the Ontocetus genus spread to the Atlantic during the Mio-Pliocene transition. This migration was probably facilitated by the Central American Seaway ...

Although no longer native to North America, the ancestors to today’s aerodynamic rodents likely made the most of the Early Pliocene’s warmer climate. The new findings come from an ...

Hyderabad: A recent study led by scientist Govindaswamy Umapathy's lab at the CCMB-Laboratory for Conservation of Endangered ...

The part you quote embodies a serious misprint. The words “distinguished by the marine Pliocene” should read “distinguished by the name Pliocene.” As I am writing further on the ...