New research revealing that ancient Africa's climate was unexpectedly rainy, challenging previous theories about human ...

Learn why the idea of an ancient African drying period is now being challenged and what this means for the story of the first ...

When visiting Godrevy beach on the north Cornish coast, most people look out to sea at the lighthouse, surfers and seals ...

The buildup of carbon dioxide and other GHGs in the atmosphere has elevated global temperatures to perilously high levels.

This fossil dates to the Pliocene Epoch in Hagerman, about 4 to 3 million years ago. | Courtesy NPS During the Pliocene (4 to 3 million years ago), this place looked quite different.

This dated age suggests that the ice sheet expansion predated the MIS M2 cooling event and possibly coincided with the early Pliocene global glaciation (ca. 4.9–4.8 Ma).

Before we put ourselves on a clear path to overshooting the maximum global heating target we set for ourselves, a different epoch, the Pliocene (which took over from the Miocene and ended just 2.4 ...

For decades after Lucy's discovery, paleoanthropologists assumed A. afarensis was the only hominin that lived in this region during the middle Pliocene epoch (3 million to 4 million years ago).

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South of human civilization lies the vast Southern Ocean, the waters of which get swept around the globe by the Antarctic circumpolar current (ACC). This formidable current transports more than ...

The Pliocene Epoch occurred 2.7 to 5.3 million years ago, and was primarily characterized by a warmer than “pre-industrial” climate (when we started burning fossil fuels).