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 ...

Carbon dioxide levels in the Earth’s atmosphere hit nearly 420 parts per million in 2021 — a level not seen in around four million years, since the mid-Pliocene Epoch, long before our own ...

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 ...