For 600,000 years during the tail end of the Miocene epoch, the Mediterranean was a dried-up salt plain cut off from the Atlantic Ocean. Around 5.3 million years ago, the eastern and western ...

The geologic time scale is divided into eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages. Our activities ... other animal groups 65.5 million years ago defines the beginning of the Cenozoic era. We are including ...

In this location, scientists from the University of Alberta found a specific snake fossil in rocks from the Oligocene epoch (Cenozoic era). The remains include four specimens intertwined and ...

Geologists have assigned the present time to the Holocene Epoch of the Quaternary Period, part of the Cenozoic Era, on the time scale of the 4.6-billion-year history of the Earth. However ...