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 ...

In many ways, Earth’s story for the past 550 million ... Around 6 million years ago, between the Miocene and Pliocene epochs—or more specifically, the Messinian and Zanclean ages—the ...

Interestingly, analysis shows that this ancient ancestor likely walked the Earth at the same time as ... late-surviving basal hominins in the Early Pliocene.” Learning more about our ancient ...

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 ...