Primates are smart, flexible, and adaptive creatures. How have they responded to changes in climate over millions of years? Climate is the major factor that determines where a species can and ...

The study, "Biogeographic responses in marine plankton functional groups to Cenozoic climatic and environmental changes" published in Nature, suggests that plankton migrated to cooler regions to ...

provides a large-scale view of how species diversity changed over the first 65 million years of the Cenozoic era—up until the arrival of humans—and how climate and other environmental factors ...

That puts Megatooth, and probably some of its ancestors, at the top step of the prehistoric food chain when it stalked the seas during the Cenozoic era ... College Assistant Professor of Earth and ...

3 min read At the dawn of the Paleogene—the beginning of the Cenozoic era—dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and giant marine reptiles were conspicuously absent from the face of the Earth. Rodent-size ...

“Beppu Bay is a silent witness to how significantly human activity has disturbed the environment,” said ... part of the Cenozoic Era, on the time scale of the 4.6-billion-year history of ...