Instead, the Pisco Basin used to be covered by the Pacific Ocean during the Late Miocene to the Early Pliocene periods. Therefore, some of the massive sea creatures that lived in the Pacific Ocean ...

2006). Going back further in time, we find warmer climates. During the Pliocene, three million years ago, sea level was about 25-35 meters higher than today, while temperatures were just 2-3 ºC ...

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 ...