With its CO2 levels that maxed out at 425 ppm (roughly where we’re at already), the Pliocene offered a mostly warm and pleasant climate preceding the ice ages of the Pleistocene. Not such a bad ...

The patterns and changes in the climate system during the Pliocene could presage how the planet will respond to near-future climate change. For instance, paleoclimatology tells us that smaller ice ...

Potts, R. Evolution and climate variability. Science 273, 922-923 (1996). Potts, R. Environmental hypotheses of Pliocene human evolution. In Hominid Environments in the East African Pliocene ...

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 BFm and IpS appear to have captured the response to the Pliocene climate transition, independent of tectonic uplift, and provide a useful study area to evaluate climatogenic basin evolution in the ...